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Generation KU: individualism and China's millennial youth.
; ...individualism is the pervasive use of a new slang term associated with it, ku. Ku is the Chinese version of the American slang term cool, and like cool, its emergence as a pervasive youth slang term is the verbal icon of a youth rebellion that...
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The Language of Racing
; ...the second car along with it. GROOVE: Slang term for the best route around a racetrack...for a particular driver. HAPPY HOUR: Slang term for the last practice session before...roads on the back, too. POLE POSITION: Slang term for the foremost position on the starting...
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MERSEY facts.(News)
; THE popular slang term moggy,meaning cat,originated in Liverpool and means mouse,but over the years changed its meaning to mousecatcher.
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NBC apologizes for Fond's use of vulgar term
; NEW YORK (AP) - Jane Fonda used a vulgar slang term on NBC's "Today" show Thursday while talking about the play...Vieira that she was asked to perform a monologue with a slang term for vagina as the title - and Fonda used the term itself...
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DEAR MIRROR: Question time.(Letters)
; ...to differ. It originates from when soldiers returned to the UK from India, where the 25 rupee note featured a pony. As T Gardener stated, a 500 rupee note featured a monkey. Jonathan White, Cardiff Can you answer this? Q WHY is Boxing Day so...
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Mirror M@ilbox: Hoon the hypocrite; WAR ON TERROR.(Features)
; Byline: Jason Davies AN Australian friend tells me that Hoon is a slang term for an ignorant, brain-dead vandal. How appropriate. Jason Davies, by email
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Substance-abuse slang terms and implications for cultural groups including orthodox Jews.(Letters to the Editor)
; ...professionals to quickly recognize if a slang term used by a patient of a particular cultural...possible substance abuse. Also, at least one slang term was omitted. In my recently published...among Orthodox Jewish adolescents, the slang term of schmif is used to describe marijuana...
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kelly's i: Net News.(Features)
; ...chopped pork shoulder and ham - not the slang term for junk email) is not made from reprocessed...products. We still don't like spam (the slang term for junk email - not the delicious luncheon...chopped pork shoulder and ham - not the slang term for junk email), check out their ...
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Letter: Muggled thinking
; Sir: J K Rowling's use of the term "muggles" is not original ("Harry Potter goes to court over muggles", 24 November). This is a long- standing slang term for marijuana, and the title of a recording made by Louis Armstrong in 1928. MICHAEL HARVEY Bridport, Dorset
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[ * The slang term "hot," meaning "sexy," isn't all ... ]
; * The slang term "hot," meaning "sexy," isn't all that new. It was used in the same way back in 1910. * Reader Ophelia Deloog asks what "cc:" stands...
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