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Rip⋅ken

[rip-kuhn]
–noun
Calvin Edward (“Cal”; “Iron Man”), born 1960, U.S. baseball player.
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Rip·ken   (rĭp'kən)   
American baseball player. A shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles, he was the American League's most valuable player in 1983 and 1991. In 1995 he broke Lou Gehrig's 2,130-game record for consecutive games played and voluntarily ended his streak in 1998 at 2,632 consecutive games.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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