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stiff
 v.— «The soundtrack album “All This and World War II”…is made up solely of Beatle songs performed by heavyweights like Elton John, Leo Sayer and the Bee Gees. It stiffed.» —“‘Beatlemania’: More Mania Than Beatle” by Mark Kernis Washington Post Apr. 7, 1978. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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