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wags

wags  n.pl.— «She’s got plenty of time to become as polished, pretty and vacant as the WAGs (wives and girlfriends) of the rest of the England squad – why make her clone up any faster than she needs to?» —“Telly gets a sporting...

sashweight

sashweight
 n.— «Bores and self-important types were “sashweights” in his lexicon.» —“Gardner Botsford” by Roger Angell New Yorker Oct. 4, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

item girl

item girl  n.— «Upcoming performers who start their careers in the Hindi film industry by doing dance numbers in films or music videos—”item girls” in Bollywood parlance—are now becoming part of Kathmandu’s entertainment...

pump head

pump head  n.— «Clinton stands a good chance of fully rebounding from the bypass surgery, in which doctors replace clogged arteries to the heart with veins and arteries taken from elsewhere in the body. But many people who undergo the...

wags

wags  n.pl.— «Pictures of the wives and girlfriends (or Wags as the FA’s acronym calls them) of the Euro 2004 England team, or of the wives and girlfriends of the 1999 US Ryder Cup team, for instance, show a classic feminine look where...

graffi man

graffi man  n.— «For instance, that “graffi man” who is slightly to Tanyi Biya’s right is again found about three places to the right and four places behind.» —“Fru Ndi’s ‘Honourable’ Exit” by Clovis...

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