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sleeve
 v.— «Aficionados prefer murals. They’ll get “sleeved”—an entire arm’s length of tattoos—or go for a chest panel or backpiece» —“Tattoos are no longer just for bikers and felons as they become a fashion accessory” by Tom Berg Orange County Register (California) Nov. 26, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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