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hip-life

hip-life  n.— «Hip-life music has been the main dominant rhythm in our music industry; hardly a day passes by without radio stations blaring them on air. This is because the “westernised” youth who form the majority of our...

noodle

noodle  v.— «Sheriff Thomas Johnstone said Hargraves was noodling (attempting to catch fish bare-handed) when he apparently stepped into a deep hole in Salt Fork River.» —“Warnings Issued After 3 State Fishermen...

hiplife

hiplife  n.— «Hiplife was almost solely the brainchild of Reginald “Reggie Rockstone” Osei. Memory lane: Whilst we were both in Accra from London on Christmas holidays in 1994, I vividly recollect meeting Reggie at a friend’s...

canto-pop

canto-pop  n.— «Canto-pop refers to hits sung in Cantonese, the Chinese dialect that is widely spoken in Hong Kong.» —“Hong Kong Canto-pop singer Deep Ng charged with cocaine possession” in Hong Kong The...

JND

JND  n.— «With this method, the “just-noticeable-difference,” (jnd) can be calculated.» —“Re: tone deafness?” by harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad) Usenet: sci.med Nov. 12, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued...

layàk

layàk  n.— «Abandoning a Muslim tradition of more than a thousand years, Turkey has also adopted a distinction between divine and secular law, even coining a new word for the latter (layàk, clearly borrowed from laicité, the...