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PO(3/2/1) – Petty Officer (Third/Second/First Class) POC – Point of Contact; POD – Plan of the Day; POM – Plan of the Month; POOW – Petty Officer of the Watch; POTUS – President of the United States; POW – Plan of the Week; POW – Prisoner of War; PRD – Projected Rotation Date; PRIFLY – Primary Flight Control ; PRT ...
Her initial letters to Merriam-Webster and Milton Bradley requesting removal of the words resulted in politely negative responses. Merriam-Webster responded "[the] slurs are part of the language and reputable dictionaries record them as such." Milton Bradley responded "As a dictionary, it is a reflection of words currently used in our language ...
The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although forms in modern languages are given for families in which the older stages of the languages are poorly documented or do not differ significantly from the modern languages.
Petty originally wrote some words to the song and called it "You Rock Me". Campbell thought the title was a little ordinary and very cliché, but the song sounded fine and they recorded it. Eventually, Petty came back and decided to change the title to "You Wreck Me", and the new title changed the whole meaning of the song. [3] [4]
Other suggestions have been made, most commonly noting that spiv is also a Romani word for a sparrow, implying the person is a petty criminal rather than a serious "villain" [5] or that it is an American police acronym for Suspicious Person Itinerant Vagrant, [6] though this is an unlikely formation and is probably a backronym. [4]
The alternate meaning of "petty, insignificant nonsense" may be used as either a noun or an adjective. [6] According to Paul Fussell in his book Wartime, chickenshit in this sense has military roots: "Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly ...
cattalo, from cattle and buffalo [2]; donkra, from donkey and zebra (progeny of donkey stallion and zebra mare) cf. zedonk below; llamanaco, from llama and guanaco [3]; wholphin, from whale and dolphin [2]
"The Waiting" is the lead single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' album Hard Promises, released in 1981. The song peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #1 on the magazine's new Rock Tracks chart, where it remained for six consecutive weeks during the summer of 1981.