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Encyclopedia > Tony

Tony can mean any of the following:

  • a slang word for Cocaine
  • Tony Award
  • a nickname for the male names Antoine, Antony, Antonio, Anthony, and Manraj, and for the female name Antoinette.
  • a slang term for someone who isn't good looking or hasn't got good taste
  • a vain and aggressive male. Overly concerned with the pursuit of females, a Tony usually has a hip and stylish appearance. Tony’s demonstrate exaggerated masculine character traits, such as a muscular physique, an eagerness to fight and extreme homophobia. Possible tell tale signs of a Tony include gelled hair, Chinese character tattoos, popped collars and other male fashion trends. The term Tony originated from a Seinfeld episode in which Elaine dates a “mimbo” named Tony (played by Dan Cortez).
  • Tony is often used by the British mass media and opposition parties as an informal name for Prime Minister Tony Blair; referring to his supposed informal style of interaction with the British people.

All pages beginning with Tony This article is about the drug cocaine. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... // A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Bob, Rob, Robby, Robbie, Robi, Bobby, Rab, Bert, Bertie, Butch, Bobbers, Bobert, Beto, Bobadito, and Robban (in Sweden), are all short for Robert). ... Anthony or Antony (IPA: ) is a male given name, (eleventh most popular male first name in the United States as of 2004), derived from Antonius a Roman family name. ... The word homophobia means fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. ... Seinfeld was an American television situation comedy set in New York City that ran from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998. ... Mass media is a term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). ... Parliamentary opposition is a form of political opposition to a designated government, particularly in a Westminster-based parliamentary system. ... Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ... Anthony Charles Lynton Blair PC, MP (born 6 May 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the UK Civil Service, Leader of the UK Labour Party, and Member of the UK Parliament for the constituency of Sedgefield in North East...



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The 61st Annual Tony Awards on CBS (97 words)
Get ready for the 61st Annual Tony Awards®, the most anticipated evening in American Theater, broadcast live from the Radio City Music Hall in New York on Sunday, June 10 at 8pm et/pt.
This year marks the 10th year that the historic Radio City Music Hall is home to the Tonys.
The nominations were announced the morning of May 15 by Tony winner Jane Krakowski and Broadway star Taye Diggs.
purevolume™ | Tonys Juice (625 words)
Tonys Juice uma banda recifense de rock alternativo com uma pitada de grunge.
Suas influncias variam desde bandas com uma voz suave e teclados como Coldplay e Radiohead bandas como Pearl Jam e Alice in Chains, com guitarras mais pesadas e com efeitos, tambm tm influencias de bandas como Placebo, com ritmos mas agitados e at danantes.
Tonys Juice chegou a ter uma mdia de 500 downloads semanais, ficando com um total de mais de 10.000 downloads, o que garantiu o segundo lugar na colocao geral da categoria atrs apenas de Mudhoney (importante banda grunge no cenrio mundial), hoje a banda esta no terceiro lugar geral com mais de 16.600 downloads.
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