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decleat
 v.— «Faulk charged downfield, upended a would-be blocker—a “decleating,” in NFL parlance—and dropped Jamal Robertson “like nobody else was on the field,” coach Mike Martz said.» —“Trev Faulk makes impact in return to action” by Bill Coats St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Mo.) Oct. 6, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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