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  2. File:Phrases and names, their origins and meanings (IA ...

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  3. Homonym - Wikipedia

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    The words there, their, and they're are examples of three words that are of a singular pronunciation, have different spellings and vastly different meanings. These three words are commonly misused (or, alternatively, misspelled). [14] there – "The bow shot the arrow there," he said as he pointed. their – "It was their bow and arrow." the ...

  4. Category:Lists of slang - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Pages in category "Lists of slang" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 ...

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

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    eager or intent on, example: he is keen to get to work on time. desirable or just right, example: "peachy keen" – "That's a pretty keen outfit you're wearing." (slang going out of common usage) keeper a curator or a goalkeeper: one that keeps (as a gamekeeper or a warden) a type of play in American football ("Quarterback keeper")

  6. Glossary of Generation Z slang - Wikipedia

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    An example of the term being used in popular culture is also in the Gangsta rap scene, with YBN Nahmir and his song "Opp Stoppa". Dictionary.com implies that the origins for the two meanings had little to do with each other. [110] out of pocket To be crazy, wild, or extreme, sometimes to an extent that is considered too far. [3] [111] owned

  7. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    Its first printed use came as early as 1991 in William G. Hawkeswood's "One of the Children: An Ethnography of Identity and Gay Black Men," wherein one of the subjects used the word "tea" to mean ...

  8. Dictionary of American Regional English - Wikipedia

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    Six print volumes of the DARE have been published by Harvard University's Belknap Press. Volume I (1985) contains detailed introductory material, plus the letters A-C; Volume II (1991) covers the letters D-H; Volume III (1996) contains I-O; Volume IV (2002) includes P-Sk; and Volume V (2012) covers Sl-Z as well as a bibliography of nearly 13,000 sources cited in the five volumes.

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