
What does "coll" mean? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
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'Calm, cool and collective' vs 'calm, cool and collected'
What is the difference between calm, cool and collective and calm, cool and collected? What is the meaning of collective or collected when used in this way? I checked the dictionary but still …
Where did the slang usages of "cool" come from?
I see and hear two general slang usages of cool - one meaning great (illustrated by a and b below), and one meaning acceptable/okay (illustrated by c and d). The following are …
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Sep 9, 2024 · I've just found out that a penny can be called a win in slang. It appears to be only used in British slang, and perhaps in Irish too. Green’s Dictionary of Slang mentions below and …
etymology - What is the origin of "cool beans"? - English …
May 11, 2019 · I've read it a few times and assumed it was some sort of Beatnik expression. "Cool", of course, is a well-known Beatnik term, but what is meant by "beans" in this context is …
word choice - What do you call the thing you get at the hospital …
When you break your leg or any of your appendages you get a binding, you know, the white thing to fix your arm or leg. What is that called? I find the words gypsum, cast and plastery in the dict...
What does "Google-fu" mean? [duplicate] - English Language
Exact Duplicate: Can anyone tell me what the suffix “-fu” stands for in the following sentence? I was reading an article on MSDN where I found a mention to google-fu. It says, “To …
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Nov 30, 2020 · The President-elect tried to buck up weary Americans with a hopeful Thanksgiving message this week, promising that this "grim season of division" would soon give …
What is the origin of "giving [it] the old college try"?
For more background on the use of the phrase, including some connotations I wasn't aware of, I offer the following entry in Paul Dickson's The Dickson Baseball Dictionary: old college try A …
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Nov 17, 2014 · What he says is clearly gotten, although he says it with an American accent, replacing the 't' with a glottal stop, and not emphasizing the 'n' very much.