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  2. Dude - Wikipedia

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    Dude is American slang for an individual, typically male. [1] From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a male person who dressed in an extremely fashionable manner (a dandy) or a conspicuous citified person who was visiting a rural location, a "city slicker". In the 1960s, dude evolved to mean any male person, a meaning that slipped ...

  3. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    A simple smiley. This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons.Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art.

  4. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 August 11 ...

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    I have a heated debate with many people about the use of the word 'dude'. It has been widely believed, used and postulated by Australians that the word dude somehow means camels dick or foreskin. I wonder where this idea orginated, given dude has many other colloquial meanings in the USA and in England.

  5. What does NSFW mean? Study reveals text abbreviations ... - AOL

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    Texting abbreviations have been around for decades, since texting itself. And now, more abbreviations and slang words continue to crop up as Gen Z enters adulthood and Gen A gets old enough to ...

  6. Huh? Here's What 'MB' Means in Text - AOL

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    Plus, examples of how to use the term.

  7. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    In this table, The first cell in each row gives a symbol; The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias.

  8. Wait, What? Here's Exactly What 'DNI' Means on Social Media - AOL

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    "DNI" can also stand for the government position of "Director of National Intelligence." Next: Huh? Here's What 'WYD' Means in Texting. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Holiday ...

  9. SMS language - Wikipedia

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    SMS language displayed on a mobile phone screen. Short Message Service language, textism, or textese [a] is the abbreviated language and slang commonly used in the late 1990s and early 2000s with mobile phone text messaging, and occasionally through Internet-based communication such as email and instant messaging.