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noun

Uncle n.

The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.

A pawnbroker. (Slang)

An eldery man; used chiefly as a kindly or familiar appellation, esp. (Southern U. S.) for a worthy old negro; as, "Uncle Remus." (Colloq.) "Plain old uncle as he (Socrates) was, with his great ears, an immense talker."

My uncle, a pawnbroker. (Slang)

Uncle Sam, a humorous appellation given to the United States Government. See Uncle Sam, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

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"Uncle sam" Quotes from Famous Books

... American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John Bull, but he is tarred with the English stick. For Mr. Grant White the States are the New England States and nothing more. He wonders at the amount of drinking in London; let him try San ...

— Memories and Portraits • Robert Louis Stevenson

... excellence. For him it would feel like slacking to go into any but fighting service. Six feet two and weighing a hundred and ninety, every ounce possible to be muscle was muscle; easy, joyful twenty-four-year-old muscle which knew nothing of fatigue. He was certain he would make a fit soldier for Uncle Sam, and how, how he wanted to be Uncle ...

— Joy in the Morning • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

... Jack; and father impressed its importance on me when he handed it to me stamped, and ready to go. I think it means something big in a business deal of his. Now, in these times when war has gripped nearly the whole world, Uncle Sam with the rest, it's a long wait before you can expect an answer to a letter going abroad, even if the German submarines allow it to reach there. And if I don't find out the truth now, just think of the days and weeks I'll be worrying my head off ...

— Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums • Mark Overton

... rebels to the very quick, and never failed at any time to remind one that their uncle was "President" Davis! And then, as we went in the large dining room, Faye in his very bluest, shiniest uniform, looked as if he might be Uncle Sam himself. ...

— Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 • Frances M.A. Roe

... waste a few hundred dollars of your Uncle Sam's money," observed Carter, the officer of the deck. "It takes placed charges inside and out for that kind ...

— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

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