Usually means: Obsessive captain hunting the white whale.
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  1. Ahab, Captain: Dictionary.com
  2. Captain Ahab (Moby-Dick), Captain Ahab (band), Captain Ahab (disambiguation), Captain Ahab: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Ahab, Captain: Who2
  4. captain ahab, Captain Ahab: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Ahab, Captain: Encyclopedia

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  1. Captain Ahab: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Captain Ahab)

▸ noun:  the captain of the Pequod in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick.
▸ noun:  an American electronic music duo based in Los Angeles, California.
▸ noun:  a fictional character and one of the protagonists in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.


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