office
n.— «These days, Czechs go to the office to work at their marketing or manazer job and head afterward to a fitness or maybe for drinky. On the vikend, they may go sopink to browse the newest notebooky and discuss what’s cool—or they may just opt for kempink.» —“Shouldn’t we speak the queen’s Czech?” by Matt Reynolds Prague Post (Czech Republic) Mar. 31, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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