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walltop
 n.— «Five hours later I turned my laptop into a digital picture frame. Coined as a “walltop” by one of the first that was widely publicized (here), it is just a plain old laptop with the screen being displayed in a picture frame.» —“My Walltop” I Exist Oct. 7, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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