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

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    a telephone call for which the recipient pays (US and UK also: collect call); also v. to reverse charge, to reverse the charges*, etc. to make such a call (dated in US, used in the 1934 American film It Happened One Night – US usually: to call collect) rota a roll call or roster of names, or round or rotation of duties (the) rozzers

  3. Appellplatz - Wikipedia

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    Appellplatz (often spelt appelplatz) is a compound German word meaning "roll call area": (Appell + Platz). In English, the word is generally used to describe the location for the daily roll calls in Nazi concentration camps .

  4. Bleacher Creatures - Wikipedia

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    Vinny "Bald Vinny" Milano, calling out the center fielder's name to begin the roll call. The Creatures' most famous and long-standing chant is known as the roll call. During one game in 1998, the fans, led by Ramirez, started chanting the name of Yankees first baseman Tino Martinez. [35]

  5. Pull-tab - Wikipedia

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    A pull-tab lotto ticket. A pull-tab is a gambling ticket for a pull-tab game. Other names for the game include Break-Opens, Nevada Tickets, Cherry Bells, Lucky 7s, Pickle Cards, Pickle Tickets, Instant Bingo, Bowl Games, or Popp-Opens. [1] Physical pull-tab tickets are multi-layered paper tickets containing symbols hidden behind perforated tabs.

  6. Bingo (British version) - Wikipedia

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    A typical bingo ticket contains 27 spaces, arranged in nine columns by three rows. Each row contains five numbers and four blank spaces. Each column contains up to three numbers, which are arranged as follows, with some variation depending on bingo companies and/or where the game is played (e.g. hall, club or online): [6] [7]

  7. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    The English language has a number of words that denote specific or approximate quantities that are themselves not numbers. [1] Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are quantifiers. Quantifiers are a kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles ...

  8. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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    Usually announced as a pair of numbers, for instance "3–0" (pronounced "three and oh"), with the first number being the number of balls and the second being the number of strikes. A 3–2 count – one with the maximum number of balls and strikes in a given at bat – is referred to as a full count.

  9. List of British bingo nicknames - Wikipedia

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    Also used for other numbers ending in '2' (see '72' below). Chicken vindaloo [1] Introduced by Butlins in 2003. [1] Deck of cards Number of cards in a deck. Weeks in a year Number of weeks in a Gregorian year. 53 Here comes Herbie! 53 is the racing number of Herbie the VW Beetle. Players may reply "beep beep!". Stuck in the tree Rhymes with ...