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backpacker

backpacker  n.— «I use the term when decribing either a trendy only independent loving hip-hop kid…you usually see them at concerts with backpacks on or the college hip-hop kid who wears a backpack out of necessity…they too...

homegoing

homegoing  n.— «Mr. C.V. Surfus who passed out of this life…was born in De Kalb, County, Ind., November 25, 1837 and at the time of his homegoing was 80 years, 6 months, 7 days.» —“Bristow” Iowa...

magic suitcase

magic suitcase  n.— «If nothing changes in the race between drug-takers and testers, the takers will always be a clear length ahead. Refrigerated lorries, magic suitcases, all these little secrets have been discovered. Other ways and means...

hiplife

hiplife  n.— «Hiplife was almost solely the brainchild of Reginald “Reggie Rockstone” Osei. Memory lane: Whilst we were both in Accra from London on Christmas holidays in 1994, I vividly recollect meeting Reggie at a friend’s...

haji

haji  n.— «We were pretty much told that they were nobodies, that they were just enemy combatants. I think that giving them the distinction of soldier would have changed our attitudes toward them. A lot of it was based on racism, really...

haji

haji  n.— «It’s SO hot that if I wash my clothes in the Haji washing machine (that’s shorthand for anything bought locally, and by the way, “Haji,” Lloyd tells me, is not a pejorative term since it means “wise man.”...

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