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Hammett

[ ham-it ]

noun

  1. (Samuel) Da·shiell [d, uh, -, sheel, dash, -eel], 1894–1961, U.S. writer of detective stories.


Hammett

/ ˈhæmət /

noun

  1. HammettDashiell18941961MUSWRITING: crime writer Dashiell. 1894–1961, US writer of detective novels. His books include The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1932)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

The Costa Mesa City Council is meeting Tuesday, presumably to give final approval to the Raiders for use of the Jack Hammett Sports Complex this summer.

“Us guitar players in the West, we all have the same base vocabulary, the same handful of stereotypical licks,” Kirk Hammett of Metallica said in an interview.

Hammett has been jailed for a minimum of 24 years.

From BBC

If Chandler is considered the poet of crime fiction and Hammett its great journalist, then Himes is the songwriter of the downtrodden.

With longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and, since 2003, bassist Robert Trujillo, the band has sometimes alarmed purists with surprising left turns — recording ballads, collaborating with Lou Reed, members cutting their hair.

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