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2. Dilapidated, run-down automobile; 1920s [83] canary 1. Informer; stool pigeon [84] 2. Female vocalist typically fronting a band [85] can house Bordello; brothel [86] canned. Main article: Alcohol intoxication. Intoxicated; § drunk [87] [b] cannery prison [86] canceled stamp Shy girl at a dance or party [5] can-opener Safecracker who opens ...
Dilapidated walls of Asingan Church, Philippines. Dilapidation is a term meaning a destructive event to a building, but more particularly used in the plural in English law for the waste committed by the incumbent of an ecclesiastical living; the disrepair for which a tenant is usually liable when he has agreed to give up his premises in good ...
A 1961 American Rambler in disrepair. A decrepit car is a car that is often old and damaged and is in a barely functional state. There are many slang terms used to describe such cars, such as beater, clunker, chod, flivver, hooptie/hoopty, jalopy, old banger (most commonly used in the UK), but the most popular being junk car.
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This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States.In Commonwealth of Nations, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and Australia, some of the British terms listed are used, although another usage is often preferred.
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Dilapidated hotel sign, Route 80, Statesboro, Georgia. The picture was taken in 1979, after the end of segregation. In the United States, colored was the predominant and preferred term for African Americans in the mid- to late nineteenth century in part because it was accepted by both white and black Americans as more inclusive, covering those of mixed-race ancestry (and, less commonly, Asian ...
Large French cities are often surrounded by areas of urban decay. While city centers tend to be occupied mainly by upper-class residents, cities are often surrounded by public housing developments, with many tenants being of North African origin (from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia), and recent immigrants.