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The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
A toe tag on the corpse of the deceased in the morgue of the Charité. An empty toe tag. A toe tag is a piece of cardboard attached with string to the big toe of a deceased individual in a morgue. It is used for identification purposes, allowing the mortician, coroner, law enforcement, and others involved in the death process to correctly ...
Blend word. In linguistics, a blend —also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau[ a] —is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words. [ 2][ 3][ 4] English examples include smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, [ 3][ 5] as well as motel, from motor ( motorist) and hotel. [ 6]
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Stop Thief is an American-originated electronic board game published by Parker Brothers. It was released in 1979. [ 1][ 2] In 2016, Restoration Games announced that they were bringing back a restored version of the game, using a free smartphone companion app in place of the electronic device. On April 11, 2017, they successfully funded a ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
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A rebus ( / ˈriːbəs / REE-bəss) is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases. For example: the word "been" might be depicted by a rebus showing an illustrated bumblebee next to a plus sign (+) and the letter "n".