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  2. Crack cocaine - Wikipedia

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    For cocaine (in a plastic bag at bottom) to be converted to crack, several supplies are needed. Pictured here are baking soda, a commonly used base in making crack, a metal spoon, a tealight, and a cigarette lighter. The spoon is held over the heat source to "cook" the cocaine into crack.

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

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    Attractive person usually a woman and sometimes meaning a significant other [13] baby Something of high value or respect including your sweetheart [13] baby grand Heavily built man [5] badger game. Main article: Badger game. An extortion scheme that loosely takes its name from the illegal practice of badger-baiting. It revolves around a scheme ...

  4. Spoon - Wikipedia

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    A spoon (UK: / ˈ s p uː n /, US: / ˈ s p u n / SPOON) is a utensil consisting of a shallow bowl (also known as a head), oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery (sometimes called flatware in the United States), especially as part of a place setting , it is used primarily for transferring food to the mouth (eating).

  5. Combination eating utensils - Wikipedia

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    Even earlier versions and artifacts of combining a spoon and fork can be found from the Dutch, with some estimated to be from the 17th to 19th century. [7] In Finnish, there is a word for spork, Lusikkahaarukka, literally meaning spoon-fork. It does the same job as the spork by combining the functions of a spoon and a fork together, although ...

  6. Can opener - Wikipedia

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    A can opener (North American and Australian English) or tin opener (British English) is a mechanical device used to open metal tin cans. Although preservation of food using tin cans had been practiced since at least 1772 in the Netherlands, the first can openers were not patented until 1855 in England and 1858 in the United States. These early ...

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  8. Crank - Wikipedia

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    Cranks (restaurant), a chain of English wholefood vegetarian restaurants; Crank (surname), a surname, notable people with the surname see there; Crank conjecture, a term coined by Freeman Dyson to explain congruence patterns in integer partitions; Crank of a partition, of a partition of an integer is a certain integer associated with the partition

  9. Rube Goldberg machine - Wikipedia

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    The term "Rube Goldberg" was being used in print to describe elaborate contraptions by 1928, [2] and appeared in the Random House Dictionary of the English Language in 1966 meaning "having a fantastically complicated improvised appearance", or "deviously complex and impractical". [3]