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  2. All Dressed Up and No Place to Go - Wikipedia

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    All Dressed Up and No Place to Go, released in July, peaked at No. 75 on the Billboard 200. [3] It was her final release for Warner Bros. [4] The album received its first release on CD, in Japan only, in 1991. Wounded Bird Records later released a remastered CD version in the US in 2005, followed by a UK release from BGO Records in 2018.

  3. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary Screenshot Screenshot of Urban Dictionary front page (2018) Type of site Dictionary Available in English Owner Aaron Peckham Created by Aaron Peckham URL urbandictionary.com Launched December 9, 1999 ; 25 years ago (1999-12-09) Current status Active Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in ...

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    to fail to turn up to meet somebody, to disavow or fail to meet an obligation (UK: blow out) ("I'm just too busy, I'll have to blow you off for this evening.") bog (n.) toilet (slightly vulgar slang) (bog off) go away (slightly vulgar slang, often jocular) wetland that accumulates appreciable peat deposits

  5. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    dolled Up Dressed up [91] don't know from nothing Doesn't have any information [143] don't take any wooden nickels Don't do anything stupid; also don't take any wooden dimes [144] dope. Main article: Narcotic. Any form of illicit drugs [145] dope fiend Drug addict usually cocaine or opium [145] dope peddler Drug dealer [145] doublecross. Main ...

  6. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    It is only mildly derogatory, and its primary meaning is the same as "back of nowhere". [52] A tomar por culo is a phrase that originally meant ("[go] take it up the ass"), but has been lexicalised into meaning "go to hell", "send something or someone to hell" or "forget about it", as documented in the dictionary of the Real Academia. [52]

  7. Historical Thesaurus of English - Wikipedia

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    The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates of ...

  8. The Free Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    It is a sister site to The Free Dictionary and usage examples in the form of "references in classic literature" taken from the site's collection are used on The Free Dictionary 's definition pages. In addition, double-clicking on a word in the site's collection of reference materials brings up the word's definition on The Free Dictionary.

  9. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary was updated in 2005 by Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor as The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, [3] [4] and again in 2007 as The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, [5] which has additional entries compared to the 2005 edition, but omits the extensive citations.