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pitching

pitching  n.— «The teens who leave, more often than not before they graduate, are like the unsafe factory walls, only instead of demolition the state remedy for them is prison, and instead of stray bricks to walk around on the sidewalks...

pivaso

pivaso  n.— «A pivaso is a ballot split between the pro-commonwealth party—whose emblem is Puerto Rico’s traditional flouncy peasant hat, the pava—and the tiny PIP party, which advocates complete independence for the island. Traditionally...

pavaso

pavaso  n.— «A pivaso is a ballot split between the pro-commonwealth party—whose emblem is Puerto Rico’s traditional flouncy peasant hat, the pava—and the tiny PIP party, which advocates complete independence for the island. Traditionally...

pudding ring

pudding ring  n.— «He was also rocking a swank “pudding ring” (moustache-goatee combo) back then, and looked like a hip cross between the dude from Soundgarden and Cousin It.» —“Independence Day Fun” Bad News...

cheekia

cheekia  n.— «Czechoslovakia, under the nascent communist regime in 1948, trained Jews and others to fight for Israeli independence in the hope that Israel would become a communist state. As that effort backfired, Czechoslo-vakia tried to...

mangel

mangel
 n.— «The smoke of the “mangel” (barbecue) is everywhere.» —“Israeli Independence Day” Flowers and Sympatya (Israel) Apr. 19, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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