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A truce term is a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, such as tag or its variants. Common examples in English speaking cultures are barley , fainites , crosses , kings and exe(s) in the United Kingdom, pegs and nibs in New Zealand ...
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).
Bucktown, Pennsylvania; Bucktown, a neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois; Bucktown, a nickname (and former name) of Dunmore, Pennsylvania "Bucktown", a 1994 single released by the hip-hop group Smif-N-Wessun; Bucktown, a film from 1975 starring Fred Williamson; Bucktown, Davenport, an historic area in the eastern end of downtown Davenport, Iowa
A truce—not a compromise, but a chance for high-toned gentlemen to retire gracefully from their very civil declarations of war By Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly , February 17, 1877, p. 132. A ceasefire (also known as a truce ), [ 1 ] also spelled cease-fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), [ 2 ] is a stoppage of a war in which each side agrees ...
A slang dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, which is vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
Truce, a 1982 album by Robin Trower and Jack Bruce; Truce (group), British R&B trio in the 1990s "Truce" (song), a 1998 song by Jars of Clay "Truce" (Tom Robinson song), on the 1982 album Cabaret '79; Truce term, a word used by children to call for a temporary respite; Ekecheiria, the spirit and personification of truce in Greek mythology
A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words is a dictionary of slang originally compiled by publisher and lexicographer John Camden Hotten in 1859.. The first edition was published in 1859, with the full title and subtitle: A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words: used at the present day in the streets of London, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the houses of ...
"Bucktown" is a song by American hip hop duo Smif-N-Wessun from their debut studio album Dah Shinin'. It was released in 1994 via Wreck/ Nervous Records as the lead single from the album. Recording sessions took place at D&D Studios in New York.