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stimming on

stimming on  v.— «Nick started to walk on his toes, trail his hands on walls and developed an obsession or “stimming on” (in the parlance of those who deal with the correction of autistic behaviour) arranging boxes in rows or...

stim

stim  v.— «As she looked around, she saw some of the children shaking, others humming and showing other forms of “stimming” in the parlance of those suffering from autism.» —“Mothers help put face to autism” by...

double dead meat

double dead meat  adj.— «“Double dead meat” is a local parlance for hot meat from swine, cow or chicken that died from a disease but still being sold as “fresh.”» —“DA confiscates 1,000 kilograms of ‘double dead...

TFN

TFN  n.— «You wrote somewhere that in State Department parlance they are called TFN, totally f”“ked up nations.» —“You Can Do Anything With a Bayonet Except Sit on It” by Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch.com Feb. 26...

share of wallet

share of wallet  n.— «Customers with spare borrowing capacity, or those with a lot of their business elsewhere, can be targeted so that Westpac can satisfy more of their banking or asset management needs. In industry parlance, it’s called...

dibbly-dobbler

dibbly-dobbler  n.— «They were, to use the parlance of the game, “dibbly-dobblers,” seemingly inoffensive New Zealand medium-pacers of an earlier age whose control and subtle variations rendered them ideal for the limited-overs...

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