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picket line

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picket line
n.
A line or procession of people picketing a place of business or otherwise staging a public protest.
picket line
Noun
a line of people acting as pickets
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.picket linepicket line - a line of people acting as pickets  
line - a formation of people or things one behind another; "the line stretched clear around the corner"; "you must wait in a long line at the checkout counter"
Translations
picket line n → piquete m
picket line n → piquet m de grève
picket line picket n → Streikpostenkette f
picket line n → cordone m degli scioperanti


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Men leaped from their blankets and with guns ready ran toward the picket line, and then from the jungle beyond the boma a dozen lions, emboldened by the example of their fellow charged fearlessly upon the camp.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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