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tink
 v.— «Tink: Unknitting stitch by stitch. Compare with frog stitch.» —“Stories and stitches from Paint’s fleece” News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Dec. 11, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

dump

dump  n.— «“We’ve had a lot of snow,” veteran weather observer Jim Markalunas told The Aspen Times, “but they’ve all been small increments, 4, 5 or 6 inches.” Markalunas, who has monitored Aspen’s weather since the mid...

Illadelph

Illadelph  n.— «Hailing from their native Philadelphia (or “Illadelph,” as they refer to it in Philly slang vernacular).» —“‘Homegrown’ a successful mix of musical genres” in Notre Dame University, St. Mary’s...

monged out

monged out  n.— «“Now, it’s no big deal: people will roll a joint and no one will bother to comment.” Mr Cripps agrees. “It is nothing to do with expanding the conciousness. It is about hedonism. In the East End of London, the...

monging

monging  n.— «Sunday face originally referred to a righteous or sanctimonious facial expression, worn at or after church, or just generally.…Now it is used in the UK to refer to an almost total lack of facial expression, typically on...

tummystick

tummystick  n.— «What could easily have been a humiliating two-hour-and-15-minute episode of tummysticks-on-the-range in the hands of a lesser director and writers is saved through the sheer coldness of the combined one-two of Ang Lee and...

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