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  2. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary Screenshot Screenshot of Urban Dictionary front page (2018) Type of site Dictionary Available in English Owner Aaron Peckham Created by Aaron Peckham URL urbandictionary.com Launched December 9, 1999 ; 25 years ago (1999-12-09) Current status Active Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in ...

  3. Flyover country - Wikipedia

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    Flyover country and flyover states are American phrases describing the parts of the contiguous United States between the East and the West Coasts. The origins of the phrases and the attitudes of their supposed users are a source of debate in American culture; the terms are often regarded as pejoratives , but are sometimes "reclaimed" and used ...

  4. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    It is in fact derived from Greek ἀδάμας, meaning indomitable. There was a further confusion about whether the substance referred to is diamond or lodestone. Buck: The use of "buck" to mean "dollar" did not originate from a practice of referring to African slaves as "bucks" (male deer) when trading. [52] "

  5. NYT ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers Today, Friday, January 17

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    We mean it. Read no further until you really want some clues or you've completely given up and want the answers ASAP. Get ready for all of today's NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #586 on ...

  6. Flyover - Wikipedia

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    Flyover rights, the right to fly over a foreign country without landing; Aerial survey; Flyover country, a derisive term for the central areas of the United States; Flyovers (play), a play by Jeffrey Sweet "Flyover", a song by Asian Dub Foundation from Tank; FlyOver (ride), a set of flying theater attractions by Viad Corporation

  7. Category:Internet slang - Wikipedia

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    العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) भोजपुरी; Boarisch; Cebuano

  8. List of military slang terms - Wikipedia

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    The meaning is that something undesirable is going to happen again and that there is not much else one can do other than just endure it. The Log, the humour magazine written by and for Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, featured a series of comics entitled "The Bohica Brothers", dating back to the early 1970s. [citation needed]

  9. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    to be lazy, "I've been dossing all day", also can mean to truant, "dossing off" (similar to bunking off). Additionally it can informally take the form of a noun (i.e. "that lesson was a doss", meaning that lesson was easy, or good (primarily central Scotland).