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sing-sing
 n.— «Women and children also dressed in traditional finery danced and sang at the event, known in PNG pidgin as a “sing-sing.”» —“PNG tribes put on a show of colours” by Lloyd Jones in Goroka, Papua New Guinea The Age (Melbourne, Australia) Sept. 17, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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