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hi mom
 n.— «Just before Thanksgiving, 2004, a Fox News producer with whom I’d worked a number of times in Kabul and Bagram showed up on Bagram Air Field to shoot what military PA people call “Hi Moms”—the little snippets of video of service members saying “I’m Corporal Bill Jones from Paducah, Kentucky and I want to say “Happy Thanksgiving’ to my wife, Sheila and my parents Don and Lorraine in Louisville.”» —“ Dance, Foxholes, Dance!” Nitpicker Mar. 15, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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