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Is “come again” an absolute slang? [closed]
I am not a native English speaker and use the expression "come again" in various forms such as "Come again, please" or "Can you come again?". I consider it to be a general expression which can also be ...
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What do you call the main telephone number?
I understand that someone's work phone might have an extension. What do you call the main number of that office, which would normally be answered by an operator or a computer voice system?
Would it ...
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What does the word “hacking” or “hacker” come from? [closed]
Is there a history behind the word "hacker" and "hacking"?
Could it have anything to do with "hashing" i.e. using a hash function?
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Use of “deadpool” as a verb
I recently came across this term while examining a set of properties in a JSON feed relating to a startup company:
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"deadpooled_year": null,
"deadpooled_month": null,
"deadpooled_day": null,
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Using exclamation points as part of a brand name [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to handle a name that includes an exclamation point (or other punctuation)?
I am editing a text about a product whose name contains an exclamation point as the final ...
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Meaning of “catch you on the flip side”
I received an email from a coworker, and we're not that friendly. Actually, we're not friends at all, just two good colleagues. In his email, he wrote as his last sentence
Catch you on the flip ...
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What does it mean to “pay X on the dollar”?
When I hear money laundry lingo in TV crime-series, people sometimes fence stuff for so and so much "on the dollar". What does it actually mean? And where does the expression originate from?
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Is “premises” always plural?
On-premises ... On-premise
I see these terms frequently used to describe software systems hosted within a company's datacenter vs. software systems hosted externally by a third party (in the ...
