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Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
‡Bolshie, from Bolshevik, meaning of a person or attitude, deliberately combative or uncooperative. ‡Bookie, a bookmaker [20] Boardies, boardshorts, worn by surfers; Bottle-oh, (historical) a mobile bottle collector (for return and re-use) [16] Bottle-o, a bottle shop or alcohol store; Bowlo, a lawn bowls clubhouse ‡Brekkie or Brekky ...
Usually used in games like jackpots, meaning to enter without openers. back into To win a pot with a hand that would have folded to any bet backraise A reraise from a player who previously called in the same betting round bad beat To lose a hand where one hand is considerably ahead of the eventual winning hand. See main article: bad beat. balance
Ammi Hondo (born 1997), Japanese para-alpine skier; Daniel Hondo (born 1982), former cricketer and current rugby union player from Zimbabwe; Danilo Hondo (born 1974), German professional cyclist
Hondo is a 1953 Warnercolor 3D Western film directed by John Farrow and starring John Wayne and Geraldine Page.The screenplay is based on the 1952 Collier's short story "The Gift of Cochise" by Louis L'Amour.
In the Kashmiri language, "Hondu" refers to male sheep. This nickname was given to a Pandit man who was strong and healthy like a male sheep.It is said that the Pandits who were Shepherds or related to flocks of sheep eventually become known as Handoo or Handu.
Chi ishi (鎚石), meaning "stone mallet" or "weighted levers", are concrete weights attached to a wooden pole.The practitioner grips the end of the wooden pole opposite the concrete weight, and moves the wrist and arms in motions used in techniques normally used in kata or against opponents.
Some early guides used and advocated the use of apostrophes between word parts, to aid recognition of such compound words as gitar'ist'o, 'guitarist'; but in the latter case, modern usage is to use either a hyphen or a middle dot when disambiguation is necessary, as in ĉas-hundo or ĉas·hundo, "a hunting dog", not to be mispronounced as ĉa ...