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words to do with conventional and complementary medicine, personal fitness, exercise, and diet Lifestyle and Leisure words to do with homes and interiors, fashion, the media, entertainment, food and drink, and leisure activities in general Music words to do with music of all kinds (combined with Youth Culture in entries concerned with pop and rock music) Politics words to do with political events and issues at home and abroad People and Society words to do with social groupings and words for people with particular characteristics; social issues, education, and welfare Science and Technology words to do with any branch of science in the public eye; technical jargon that has entered the popular vocabulary War and Weaponry words to do with the arms race or armed conflicts that have been in the news Youth Culture words which have entered the general vocabulary through their use among young people CONTENTS Table of Contents Title Page TITLE Edition Notice EDITION Notices NOTICES Preface PREFACE Acknowledgements PREFACE.1 How to Use this Dictionary HOWTO
Full entries HOWTO.1 Cross-reference entries HOWTO.2 Alphabetical order HOWTO.3 Pronunciation Symbols HOWTO.4 Subject Areas HOWTO.5 Table of Contents CONTENTS A 1.0 AAA 1.1 abled... 1.2 ace... 1.3 Adam... 1.4 aerobics 1.5 affinity card... 1.6 ageism 1.7 AI... 1.8 Alar... 1.9 angel dust... 1.10 Aqua Libra... 1.11 arb... 1.12 asset 1.13 ATB... 1.14 audio-animatronics... 1.15 aware... 1.16 Azeri... 1.17 B 2.0 babble... 2.1 beat box... 2.2 bhangra 2.3 bicycle moto-cross... 2.4 black economy... 2.5 BMX. 2.6 boardsailing... 2.7 brat pack... 2.8 BSE... 2.9 B two (B2) bomber 2.10 bubblehead... 2.11 bypass 2.12 C 3.0 cable television... 3.1
Page 1 and 2: PREFACE Preface The Oxford Dictiona
Page 3 and 4: other indication of their register.
Page 5 and 6: subject area, the defining section
Page 7: The full and cross-reference entrie
Page 11 and 12: F 6.0 F 6.1 faction... 6.2 FF 6.3 F
Page 13 and 14: NMR... 14.4 no-alcohol beer... 14.5
Page 15 and 16: W 23.0 wack... 23.1 well safe... 23
Page 17 and 18: people. Etymology: Formed by adding
Page 19 and 20: 1.3 ace... Just over 30 per cent of
Page 21 and 22: Spin Oct. 1989, p. 18 Aciiied was a
Page 23 and 24: are controlled by a computer which
Page 25 and 26: ather than political activism. This
Page 27 and 28: 1.4 Adam... already infected with H
Page 29 and 30: additives, some said in the pollute
Page 31 and 32: The air-waves of the small, stuffy
Page 33 and 34: 1.7 ageism patients. By the end of
Page 35 and 36: CU Amiga Apr. 1990, p. 89 -Aid comb
Page 37 and 38: lymphadenopathy syndrome developed
Page 39 and 40: Christian Science Monitor 2 Mar. 19
Page 41 and 42: New York Times 7 May 1990, section
Page 43 and 44: The Times 27 Dec. 1985, p. 12 all-t
Page 45 and 46: performance; also alternative comed
Page 47 and 48: anew. Now they call it 'rocket fuel
Page 49 and 50: animalist° noun (Politics) An anim
Page 51 and 52: yells Stein, his mouth seeming to m
Page 53 and 54: ecently. She said there are at leas
Page 55 and 56: 1.12 arb... for the first syllable
Page 57 and 58: describe an oil which has some use
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ATB (Lifestyle and Leisure) see mou
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stress mechanisms. Observer 6 May 1
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1.17 Azeri... That night I freebase
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ecobabble (Environment), environmen
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A technique in music recording in w
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mutually dependent. The Times 16 No
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about in the seventies. Bailouts oc
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mind...Nature is deduced from the h
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in that the producer can bank on a
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In short, putting it bluntly, actua
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The Times 14 Sept. 1987, p. 10 batt
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popularity led to the development o
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After outbreaks of salmonella poiso
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2.3 bhangra History and Usage: For
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used in a transferred sense, for ex
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History and Usage: Bimbo first came
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component of the environment consis
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example, are given their distinctiv
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The Dow Jones, once up 712 points f
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2.6 BMX. radar: the small bump on a
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History and Usage: The name boardsa
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Etymology: Formed by compounding: a
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Serious damage can mean even more b
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Police took away...a 'little black'
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If a computer does not have a hard
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Goodness, was I going to give her a
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article also coined the term brat p
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It seems any moment they will break
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Etymology: For etymology and histor
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of buddy, 'friend'. The American fi
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fifth-in-a-row hit, Danny D's entre
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widely known since the advent of co
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Daily Telegraph 30 Oct. 1989, Manag
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individual country, cable tv has te
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Callanetics requires only two hour-
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Etymology: For etymology, see bottl
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Times Educational Supplement 7 Sept
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a card (see the last quotation belo
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City erupt on to the stage. These a
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forward the idea of caring capitali
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The Times 25 Apr. 1986, p. 10 cash
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Politics just aren't that important
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3.2 CD adjective: Catalysed; fitted
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3.3 Ceefax... This is a claim that
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compounds released into the atmosph
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area of mathematics and physics in
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A smokeable dollop of heroin costs
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The Times 16 July 1986, p. 36 Child
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program--reviewing records of claim
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this perceived mood of artistic cen
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3.8 cocooning... personal computers
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making cohabitation a fact of life
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p. 5 colourize transitive verb Writ
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from one area to another, and the a
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History and Usage: The term complem
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condom noun (Health and Fitness) A
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the rebels, even the end of the San
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Etymology: Formed by compounding; c
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est known tuber--a potato--reclinin
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The fact that so many counter-cultu
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established as the usual term, both
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Environment, is today expected to w
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inexplicably flattened, apparently
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It showed the group making the cros
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ecome senile. This process of crumb
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crystal healing noun (Health and Fi
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3.12 cyberpunk... cyberpunk noun So
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The Times 19 Feb. 1986, p. 17 Linco
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Economist 14 Feb. 1987, p. 19 damin
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4.3 ddI... Market lethargy has brou
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pre-lingually profoundly deaf. The
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Friedrich Magirius, superintendent
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President (or another high official
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that time. Mr Woodall, MP for 12 ye
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descriptions of genetic engineering
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Etymology: A specialized use of the
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terrorist attacks in which explosiv
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Etymology: Formed on the initial le
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disco noun Also written distco (Bus
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doc, docucombining forms (Lifestyle
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scientific inspectors doorstepping
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DTP (Science and Technology) see de
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4.10 DVI Etymology: Formed by makin
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5.0 E 5.1 E°... Norwich Union...ca
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ecopolitics (also ecopolicy, ecopol
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same way as environmental during th
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form of small tablets, could easily
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5.4 E-free... Financial World 7 Mar
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electromagnetism. In the musical se
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popularly confused with conventiona
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p.107 Sterling quickly lost the big
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Blitz Jan. 1989, p. 11 They are req
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History and Usage: This sense of en
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History and Usage: The use of envir
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environment°); used especially to
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5.11 ERM as a verb meaning 'to conv
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5.14 Euro... seventies. The distinc
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Institutional Investor May 1988, p.
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'European' (see the examples below)
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transitive or intransitive verb: To
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A blend of fact and fiction, especi
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History and Usage: Although congeni
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non-material things (such as broadc
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overweight almost into a moral issu
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History and Usage: Experiments in d
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6.4 FF FF (Lifestyle and Leisure) s
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Non-Yup by Ivor Pawsh (Advice: cons
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that has only gained a place in Bri
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Currently the England dressing room
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Listener 27 Sept. 1984, p. 19 The o
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F-plan (Health and Fitness) (Lifest
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noun freebasing; agent noun freebas
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intransitive or transitive verb: To
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National Journal 9 Feb. 1991, p. 33
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Mitsubishi mixes high performance a
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term came into the news in the mid
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preventing calcium loss from the bo
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New York Times 14 May 1986, section
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7.0 G A deliberately confusing, eup
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galleria noun (Business World) (Lif
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Part of the name Watergate, widely
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Blue Heat promisingly pits Brian De
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A luxurious exfoliating gel has bee
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when applied to industrial processe
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Etymology: Formed by adding the pro
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7.4 GIFT... GIFT acronym (Health an
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open' (of courts, proceedings, etc.
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in the general press for any kind o
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attracting large audiences in all p
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temperatures could be far-reaching,
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and doom is a gloom-and-doomster. A
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A style of popular music (originati
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humorously modelled on golden hands
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and certainly contributed to the di
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noun (Lifestyle and Leisure) A full
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estaurant and orders a couple of do
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organizations as well, and eventual
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Etymology: A figurative use of gree
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Bryan Burrough & John Helyar Barbar
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imitation of American Valspeak. Omi
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gutted adjective (Youth Culture) 8.
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Misuse Act (1990) was a formal atte
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Bruce Chatwin...and interrogate him
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where visitors were encouraged to h
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headbanger° noun Also written head
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headhunt transitive verb Also writt
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a neutral term and came to be appli
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In feminist jargon, history emphasi
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area of discrimination on grounds o
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Louisville player Derek Smith claim
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Simply find the hidden words...and
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more doubt upon the matter. The Tim
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8.4 HM virus which has not produced
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Who cares about its symbolism, home
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Mother Frances is best known as the
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Randall Lewis...discussed the 'hot
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8.6 ... 8.7 HRT It's huge...and las
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whether each individual person is r
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9.0 I 9.1 ice... hypertext, machine
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9.2 IKBS Etymology: A specializatio
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They were further down the road tha
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Janet Morley All Desires Known (198
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Wed Hosted by Dave Booth, a mix of
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infobit, a discrete piece of inform
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Fighting in Natal between sympathis
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adjective (Science and Technology)
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office developments, Northgate is n
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A one day briefing on intrapreneurs
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out Francesca Annis, shaking her he
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10.2 jack... Misset, an American ja
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Jobsworth--actually composed some y
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version, the computer jukebox has a
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This proved to be true of eating ha
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Etymology: A Japanese compound word
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exercises to the complete keyboard
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11.4 kidflation... Computer Bulleti
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11.5 krytron grown-up stuff. Listen
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journalist Simon Walters claims to
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Guardian 28 June 1990, p. 29 Lance
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Etymology: Formed by compounding, a
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and a manual to help designers to t
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during the eighties was enthusiasti
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Which? June 1987, p. 272 These are
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lifestyle products and the follower
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common as a result of the prevailin
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and a service allowing a business t
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surprisingly, though, it was hailed
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12.6 lock... and Science circular,
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12.8 luggable... luggable adjective
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Etymology: The word was invented by
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History and Usage: For history, see
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History and Usage: The magalog was
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promenade, but this is usually pron
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Exchange since the turn of the cent
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newsagent and television channel, o
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13.3 MBO endurance, etc. In the pas
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mechatronics noun (Science and Tech
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in the entertainment industry, sinc
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Elton--born Reginald Kenneth Dwight
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would be 15 feet.' 'Ah, I did?' he
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In financial jargon: representing a
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Which? Apr. 1990, p. 205 It was onl
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Today 10 Nov. 1987, p. 20 The minde
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noun (Lifestyle and Leisure) (Music
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documentary, it consisted of thirty
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millions of British and American ci
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Mountain biking demands hill-walkin
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establishment of mousse as the gene
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13.9 muesli belt... in...magnetic r
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uzzwords of the sales world in the
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sector...is growing at the rate of
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Issues [of the magazine]...embodied
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een attributed to both Bernard Levi
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nasty noun (Lifestyle and Leisure)
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neato adjective (Youth Culture) In
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Neighbourhood watch schemes are cat
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aping their elders. Art & Design Oc
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important way of advancing all kind
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connectivity; essentially this mean
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particular brand of music that tend
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14.3 nibble... of punk remained, bu
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derivatives, including niche advert
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e allowed in one's own neighbourhoo
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Etymology: A direct borrowing from
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(foods, drink, drugs, etc.) which m
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user. Plates arrive from the kitche
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New Scientist 1 July 1989, p. 43 nu
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oilflation (Business World) see kid
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party: see acid house): taking plac
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15.7 OTE... You're bound to be disa
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15.8 out... stir up (sometimes only
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15.9 ozone... Up to 150 staff will
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organized as a unit'. History and U
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markets outside the US as well. Mar
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History and Usage: A folded piece o
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tobacco smoke in the early seventie
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described as a PC XT (after the app
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dust (the most enduring of all of t
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called the 'peace dividend'. That i
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It is a question of restructuring--
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Etymology: Formed by compounding: a
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number of units of telephone time,
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16.6 piece... for press photographe
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eflecting differing attitudes to Jo
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PLA, PLWA (Health and Fitness) (Peo
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An American appeals court judge las
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Artists Newsletter Nov. 1987, p. 20
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Guardian 27 July 1989, p. 18 privil
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Christianity, but this, of course,
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PRP (Business World) see OTE 16.11
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17.0 Q 17.1 qinghaosu... Guardian W
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from M. Gell-Man's theory of sub-at
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18.0 R Quorn--should be in the shop
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The big public market specializes i
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Daily Telegraph 19 Mar. 1991, p. 2
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typewriters of 100 literate Rambos,
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and 2 raps. Tower Records' Top Feb.
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Truth caught up with Mr Bush last w
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Martin Amis London Fields (1989), p
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study' to reflex, the term used for
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Restart noun Also written restart (
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late seventies there was increasing
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of the terminally ill, people on li
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use among drug users for some time
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dramatic roles. The technique sprea
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For the DJ, crossing over is more t
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A prison regulation in the UK where
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end of the seventies. As the moveme
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Part-parody, part safe-sex educatio
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19.2 SBS There are also several mon
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Pete Shelley's move from The Buzzco
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The Sacks/Williams of the film is w
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those seen under the Securitate its
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marketing in the more abstract sens
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History and Usage: Sendero Luminoso
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Correspondent Magazine 29 Oct. 1989
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noun (Lifestyle and Leisure) (Peopl
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19.7 sick building... the gap betwe
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y the end of 1992. Etymology: Forme
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Slasher films came in for a good de
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Independent on Sunday 1 Apr. 1990,
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19.10 smart... Apart from the Hi-Fi
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among young people in the US (espec
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19.12 soca... New York City police
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developments in television newscast
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to advantage, while the latter is t
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19.14 SRINF History and Usage: The
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Nixdorf supported the development o
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A statesman or stateswoman. (Invent
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e a difficult crime to prevent, and
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In business jargon, a manager or bo
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century: the former enables us to s
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eighties. The central question conc
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from the second half of the eightie
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History and Usage: The Nielsen rati
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fashioned for a particular purpose'
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Daily Telegraph 12 Nov. 1988, p. 1
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Etymology: Another figurative use o
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using this misleading shorthand, pl
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An assortment of 'technostressed-ou
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telebetting. The telecommunications
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A study...performed by the A. C. Ni
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produced. Providing a positive coun
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Etymology: The form -something coul
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Totally happening Melbourne based g
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a lover by an older person. Etymolo
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etween the price of stock index fut
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20.8 tubular... sense, since Trojan
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etc.; in US English, turtle is the
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21.0 U 21.1 UDMH... In the slang of
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usinesses, usually so as to sell of
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user-unfriendly, unhelpful to the u
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UK until the late eighties, when mo
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unwaged noun (People and Society) O
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successful in summing up the whole
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Etymology: Formed by compounding: p
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e pronounced separately, it acquire
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the US during the sixties and seven
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the computer virus to replicate its
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22.5 Vodafone... by Backley and May
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23.0 W 23.1 wack... The Times 6 Oct
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The trade mark of a type of persona
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network can leave many LAN administ
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constituent parts (the adjective so
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drug-pushing, the arrangers tended
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clinics, together with stop-smoking
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dustmen thousands of trips to the s
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'in' word in the opposite sense to
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the wide-spread concern over wildin
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derivatives, mostly connected with
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noun: In computing, an area of the
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all over again. Sunday Telegraph Ma
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Green Cuisine Feb./Mar. 1987, p. 24
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I've been female so long that I'd b
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A computer program which (like a vi
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24.0 X 24.1 XTC and Technology) Sho
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Financial Times 19 Apr. 1990, secti
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25.3 yuppie... The Guardian Angels.
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Independent 17 Sept. 1987, p. 18 'T
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26.2 zero History and Usage: This s
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26.3 Zidovudine... zero option invo
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26.4 zouave... Independent 15 Jan.
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