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  2. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    cab Cabernet Sauvignon cabriolet caff (UK slang) café cal calorie (in combination, especially "lo-cal") Cal or Cali California Calcutta cam camera camouflage camo camouflage Can Canada or Canadian (in combination)

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

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    (v.) (slang) to talk at length, usually about trivial things; usually to 'rabbit on' (Cockney rhyming slang Rabbit and pork = talk) (n.) the animal rabbit, a lagomorph (rabbit ears) (slang) TV antenna (usage becoming obsolete) rad acronym from Radiation Absorbed Dose, an obsolete unit for absorbed ionizing radiation dose abbreviation of radian

  4. English honorifics - Wikipedia

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    The titles Mrs, Miss, and Ms are abbreviations derived from Mistress. The term is no longer commonly used because of its connotative meaning: [citation needed] "mistress" is used to refer to a woman with whom a married man is having an affair. Madam or Ma'am (/ m æ m / in General American and either / m æ m /, / m ɑː m /, or / m ə m / in ...

  5. List of United States Marine Corps acronyms and expressions

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    This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank [clarification needed]).

  6. Ms. - Wikipedia

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    Ms. (American English) [1] or Ms (British English; [2] normally / ˈ m ɪ z /, but also / m ə z /, or / m ə s / when unstressed) [3] [4] is an English-language honorific used with the last name or full name of a woman, intended as a default form of address for women regardless of marital status. [5]

  7. Are you a ‘Mother’? What to know about the slang word - AOL

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    “Mother” means awesome, beautiful, cool, loving, protective — but another timeless definition is orbiting. “Since the mid-20th century, mother has been used to refer to a feminine queer ...

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

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    (slang) to obtain or achieve by deception and/or ill preparation, to bluff, to scrounge, to rob, to wing it. A scam, tall story or deception. Derived from the French word blague. [35] bleeder derogatory term used in place of bloke ("what's that stupid bleeder done now?"); use has declined in recent years. blimey (informal) an exclamation of ...

  9. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).