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the kraken
proper noun
A colossal sea monster that attacks ships and sailors, often portrayed as a giant octopus or squid
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Release the Kraken!
Oh, the Kraken of Victoria Wood's ego!
2.29pm BST Hanksville rising The kraken wakes!
It appears in literature in a poem of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's juvenilia called "The Kraken".
The allure of the crack, the lure of the crackle, the lair of the kraken.
(A sign on the banquet table warns that potluck leftovers will be fed to the Kraken).
The book's starting point is the kraken (pronounced CRACK-en), or giant squid.
At last, even the most ardent skeptic was forced to admit that the Kraken was real.
In Norway, sailors sometimes reported sightings of a tentacled predator, which they dubbed the Kraken.
And "Tweak the time dongle!" might rival "Release the Kraken!" as a catch-cry.
As it turned out, my skirmishes with the Kraken (though regular) were actually pretty funny.
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