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(film industry, historical) The sale of multiple films to a theater as a unit, sight unseen, allowing the studio to package inferior films with more popular ones.
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(law enforcement) A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station.
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(video games) to block with the body
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Alternative form of bombsies (“style of playing marbles”) [(childish) In children's games of marbles, the mode of play where one player attempts to drop a marble from above in order to hit a marble on the ground.]
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(obsolete) A prompter at a theatre.
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(historical) A government intelligence-gathering office, usually within a postal service, where correspondence was covertly opened and read before being forwarded to its destination.
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A person who collects cigarette cards as a hobby.
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The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
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(vulgar, slang) Alternative spelling of cockblock [(vulgar, slang) To make or attempt to make another's intended goal of sexual intercourse impossible.]
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(informal) Synonym of hackathon
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A part of a sports venue reserved for commentators, generally with an excellent view of the action
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A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
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Synonym of desk organizer
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(US) One who studies and reports on the draft (player selection) for professional sports leagues.
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The act of an individual engaging in fedposting.
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(computer security) A request for provision of emergency access to a computer system in order to fix a problem
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(amateur radio) The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
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A poster, especially for advertisement purposes, put up illegally
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The act of posting posters in prohibited or illegal areas, especially for advertisement purposes
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Publicizing a real estate agent by putting up fake “sold” or “for sale” signs.
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A flyer, poster, etc. that is illegally posted in a public place.
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Alternative form of fly-posting [The act of posting posters in prohibited or illegal areas, especially for advertisement purposes]
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(countable, usually in the plural) A gadget.
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The virtual landscape within a video game.
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Alternative spelling of hand-held [(computing) A personal digital assistant or video game console that is small enough to be held in the hands.]
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(video games) A situation where a game becomes unplayable, making further progress or action impossible, typically due to a design flaw or glitch.
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Alternative spelling of help desk [A section of an organization offering specialist advice to customers or users who have problems, especially with computer equipment or systems.]
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A patch or other object that indicates a person's official or military rank, or membership in a group or organization.
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Pronunciation spelling of job. [A task.]
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(South Asia) A process or technique that lessens disorder in one's life, making it easier to manage, or more convenient.
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A small enclosed structure, often freestanding, open on one side or with a window, used as a booth to sell newspapers, cigarettes, etc.
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(African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of mark. [(obsolete) A boundary; a border or frontier.]
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An individual who creates machinima.
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An individual who creates machinima.
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(historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
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(Internet, transitive) To add a new message to a long-dormant conversation.
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(dated, by extension) The people admitted by free passes.
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(slang) Administrative documents and forms.
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Action of performing a Portable Appliance Test or PAT
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Of a robot: having the purpose of picking up objects and placing them somewhere else.
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(physics) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.
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Laboratory experiment, test or investigation
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(slang) A person who carries a mobile device such as a laptop or PDA and uses wireless internet connections to work.
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(UK, slang, archaic) A street hawker of books and newspapers.
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(often poetic) Dated spelling of role.
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(Internet slang) A script kiddie.
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(military) A report on enemy activity filed immediately after observation.
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(slang) The radio used in police vehicles to keep in contact with headquarters.
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(figuratively, engineering, business) An outline serving as an initial proposal for a project, usually refined iteratively.
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(military) A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
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(Internet) One who takes over a discussion thread with a subject unrelated to the original posting.
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