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wanr
 v.— «A busload of French media of all kinds were flown in along with the 13 DJs and bands, and were busy photographing, videoing, recording and interviewing the more outgoing of the local revellers as they danced, screamed, disrobed (shirts from male bodies and nothing more; this was not a “Show us your tits” Woodstock) and, in the local parlance, wanr-ed (rhymes with “bar’: “Wah-er”) until they could wanr no more.» —“Foreign Devil” by Jon Campbell PopMatters June 28, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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