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The New York Times used “Okie” as a crossword puzzle answer (to the clue "Resident of the 46th state") just last week. On the other hand, the term has slowly disappeared from this newspaper.
Okanagan Okie – Stompin' Tom Connors. [21] Okie – J. J. Cale (1974). Okie From Muskogee – Merle Haggard (from the 1969 album of the same name). "Okie" – a parody of the above by Patrick Sky from his 1973 album Songs that made America Famous. Okie Skies – The Bays Brothers (2004). Okies in California – Doye O'Dell (1949).
Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...
The term four-letter word serves as a euphemism for words that are often considered profane or offensive.. The designation "four-letter" arises from the observation that many (though not all) popular or slang terms related to excretory functions, sexual activity, genitalia, blasphemies, and terms linked to Hell or damnation are incidentally four-character monosyllables.
Okie, a type of fictional city in James Blish's space story series Cities in Flight Okie dialect, a dialect of American English associated with Oklahoma; Southern American English Okie dokie , slang for " okay "