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  2. Glossary of German military terms - Wikipedia

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    Maskenball – German slang for fighting with NBC-protective gear, or at least with gas mask; Maultier – Sd.Kfz. 4 half-track truck, German for mule; Maus – "mouse"; nickname for a large, Porsche-designed super-heavy tank, the heaviest tank ever actually built and tested, that never passed beyond prototype stage.

  3. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...

  4. List of terms used for Germans - Wikipedia

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    A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterisation of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilisation and humanitarian values having ...

  5. Maus - Wikipedia

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    The German word Maus is cognate to the English word "mouse", [117] and also reminiscent of the German verb mauscheln, which means "to speak like a Jew" [118] and refers to the way Jews from Eastern Europe spoke German [119] —a word etymologically related not to Maus but, distantly, to Moses.

  6. Tennessee school board votes unanimously to ban book about ...

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    A Tennessee school board voted 10-0 to ban the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel "Maus," which details the horrors of the Holocaust.

  7. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

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    German for 'bull'. Slang for police officer, often derogatory. Bullerei and the plural Bullen refer to the police as a whole. [11] [12] Buttons (The) US, 1940s, referring to the large brass buttons of the era. [citation needed] Byling Old Swedish slang for patrolling officers. The word means "peeler" in Swedish and it is rarely used nowadays. [13]

  8. List of German abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u." This article covers standard ...

  9. What do teens mean when they say ‘sigma’? - AOL

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    Urban Dictionary adds that sigma “is what all 10 year olds think they are.” As reported by British GQ , the word “sigma” was born from the misogynistic “manosphere.” What does ‘sigma ...