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hajjis

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Plural of hajji

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Resist, he says, and we'll pulp you like hajjis.

McMaster ordered his soldiers never to swear in front of Iraqis or call them "hajjis" in a derogatory way (this war's version of "gook").

Obviously, in the case of Uman, many of the pilgrims are seriously devout, almost like Jewish hajjis, but in the case of the Camino, that trip is taken by both serious Catholics and also spiritually inclined nonbelievers (not to mention dissipated study-abroad students).

They've been involved in a firefight in Iraq, in which they not only tore apart a group of insurgents – "beebs" or "hajjis" in the army's harsh dialect – but were filmed doing so by an embedded journalist.

Few soldiers know Arabic or have much direct contact with Iraqi civilians, whom many soldiers derisively call "hajjis".

The most famous incident at the pilgrimage this year was a sad one — the death more than 300 hajjis in Mina who were stampeded while throwing stones at three walls representing the devil (a must in hajj).

As for the earlier account of the killing, he added, "It has nothing to do with the hajjis," the pilgrims.

Hajjis who went to Mecca, whether by bus or by plane, were nervous all the time, wondering if they'd get through or not.

As a result, Mecca can accommodate the continually increasing number of pilgrims, or hajjis.

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The Council of British Hajjis (CBH), which supports pilgrims from the UK, was one of the groups working to trace anyone unaccounted for.

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