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Dave Cunningham
October 12th, 2005, 07:41 PM
A dozen and a half possibly believabledefinitions for OOP -- vote for two of them before 7 a.m. EDT on Friday 14 Oct. 2005. As always, all errors are the fault of the dealer.



1. [Malay] smooth.

2. [Urdu] a spicy rice dish.

3. a small hill

4. The likelihood of a malfunction

5. [Dutch] oaf; simpleton

6. [Chiefly Scot.] jump.

7. knee-length sealskin boot.

8. In cartoons, a painted tunnel entrance.

9. a small rodent of South Asia, similar to a groundhog.

10. a sand ripple perpendicular to the prevailing wind.

11. command to reindeer teams, 'move faster' (Lapp)

12. To bind with a thread or cord; to join; to unite.

13. Short form of nincompoop

14. [Slang] To lounge about; loll.

15. a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals

16. the open circle of copper or bronze used as a neck ring for a slave: [a torc]

17. the fifth canonical metasyntactic variable, after foo, bar, baz, and qux.

18. [notational abbr.] 1. _Publishing_ Out Of Print 2. _Law enforcement_ Obscene Or Pornographic

Dave 103
DQ, DF

Daniel B. Widdis
October 12th, 2005, 10:32 PM
10 and 11 please, and I'm not voting in binary.

--
Dan



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Hugo Kornelis
October 13th, 2005, 03:48 AM
Hi Dave,

I'll have the last two:

17. the fifth canonical metasyntactic variable, after foo, bar,
baz, and qux.

18. [notational abbr.] 1. _Publishing_ Out Of Print 2. _Law
enforcement_ Obscene Or Pornographic

Best, Hugo



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Tim Bourne
October 13th, 2005, 08:13 AM
Even less believable than usual!

I'll have 5 and 10, please.

Tim B





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Christopher Carson
October 13th, 2005, 01:02 PM
I'll go for #8, the tribute to the world reknowned Acme Corporation, and the
abbreviation, #18.

Chris




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Kiwiro
October 13th, 2005, 02:18 PM
7 and 17 please

Chuck Emery
October 13th, 2005, 04:44 PM
Dave -

Nice selection. I'll try:

5. [Dutch] oaf; simpleton

and

14. [Slang] To lounge about; loll.

Thanks,

Chuck


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Tony Abell
October 13th, 2005, 04:51 PM
Tough choices, as always, but I think I'll reward the authors of the
very unpopular 3 and the very popular 17.




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