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rez car
 n.— «He described his “cat and mouse” tactics: he would purposely allow himself to be seen, and then flee as far as Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia in cars he picked up on the reservations. “Rez cars,” he called them.» —“Fugitive Tells of Life on the Run and of a Killing” by Michael Wilson New York Times Apr. 7, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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