All 3 Uses
marathon
in
The Pigman
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- At least twice a week we'd meet for a telephone marathon.†
Chpt 3marathon = a footrace of about 26 miles
- Anyway, the idea of the telephone marathon was you had to close your eyes and stick your finger on a number in the directory and then call it up to see how long you could keep whoever answered talking on the phone.†
Chpt 3 *
- Anyway, he's the one who started cheating in the telephone marathons we were having.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(marathon as in: ran her first marathon) a 26.2-mile footrace; or, more generally, any long and demanding activity requiring endurance
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)