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  2. SoBe - Wikipedia

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    SoBe (stylized as SoBe) is an American brand of teas, fruit-juice blends and enhanced water beverages owned by PepsiCo. The name SoBe is an abbreviation of South Beach, named after the upscale area located in Miami Beach, Florida. In the past, the SoBe name has also been licensed for gum and chocolate products. SoBe switched from glass bottles ...

  3. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    slang for a lie or lying, from rhyming slang "pork pies" = "lies" postage and packing, P&P charge for said services (US: shipping and handling, S&H; the word postage is, however, used in both dialects) postal order

  4. Dockworker - Wikipedia

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    The word stevedore (/ ˈ s t iː v ɪ ˌ d ɔːr /) originated in Portugal or Spain, and entered the English language through its use by sailors. [3] It started as a phonetic spelling of estivador or estibador (), meaning a man who loads ships and stows cargo, which was the original meaning of stevedore (though there is a secondary meaning of "a man who stuffs" in Spanish); compare Latin ...

  5. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 22

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    Well, 'one up the bracket and hinge' ('one up the minge') would kind of make more sense, suggesting that the 'punch in the throat' translation may be a later sanitised version of its true meaning (not that 'bracket and hinge' means much to me, but maybe it's a common term in some location, dialect, or time period). --jjron 14:45, 22 November ...

  6. Slang - Wikipedia

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    A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing. [1] It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.

  7. Jive talk - Wikipedia

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    Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip [1] is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jive" was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the 1940s.

  8. 'Skibidi Toilet' might be made into a movie. Yes, really ...

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    Skibidi and skibidi toilet teen slang: All about the meaning and definition of the slang phrase. Everything you need to know and more than we wish we knew. 'Skibidi Toilet' might be made into a movie.

  9. Internet slang - Wikipedia

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    Internet slang (also called Internet shorthand, cyber-slang, netspeak, digispeak or chatspeak) is a non-standard or unofficial form of language used by people on the Internet to communicate to one another. [1] An example of Internet slang is "lol" meaning "laugh out loud."