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Through. An abbreviation mostly used in the fast food industry, as in Drive Thru. Also used in traffic signs ("Thru Traffic Keep Left"; i.e., traffic that is continuing through an interchange rather than exiting should keep to the left) and occasionally road names ("New York State Thruway") and sometimes in newspaper headlines.
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group of plain beds used as no-frills lodging (UK: dormitory, q.v.); also used as a verb ("I bunked with them in their room"; "The cabin could bunk about 18") bureau: a type of writing table: a public office or government agency a type of chest of drawers: burn (n.) (Scotland and Northern England) narrow river, stream – more s.v. creek
small wheeled food service table (UK: trolley); see also paddy wagon (used in the UK, but non PC), station wagon, chuckwagon, wagon train walk out, walkout (v.) "walk out with", to be romantically involved with (archaic)
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Every year, UK retailers, including John Lewis, Sainsbury, and Tesco, release their Christmas advertisements. Instead of typical commercials, they're typically short films that tell a heartwarming ...
A contraction of shall not, considered archaic in American English (US and UK also: "won't"). [149] Rarely used in Scotland. shirtlifter homosexual. shite (vulgar) variant of shit [150] shopping trolley A cart supplied by a business for use by customers for transport of merchandise to the checkout counter during shopping. (US: shopping cart ...
List of words having different meanings in American and British English (A–L) List of words having different meanings in American and British English (M–Z) Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United Kingdom; Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States