Definition of “lamppost”

"The same people who want to leave Saddam alone want to string up Sharon on a lamppost.

Community worker Mark Coulter said the new trouble flared after a wreath in memory of a Loyalist was taken off a lamppost.

For in an amorphous city which has the personality of a lamppost , we have finally found some character.

He was pictured up a lamppost sticking up a poster bearing the legend "One-party Government - No thanks".

He'd talk to a lamppost ," chuckles brother Freddy), and paint a picture of a gentle man with an even sweeter voice.

His finger wrapped around the trigger; she prayed he'd trip over the short lamppost and go sprawling, but he stepped smartly around it.

I leaned back against the wall, trying to focus on a lamppost which seemed to he moving round in slow circles.

Spot slithered slowly and painfully down a lamppost and then sat expressionless on the pavement.

They were going to bring in their own welder from Finland to fillet the seams but he wrapped both his head and his Saab around a lamppost.