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To drop a beat can also have an opposite, negative meaning in "traditional" live band music, where player or a drummer misses or loses the beat, stopping the rhythm. …

if foo has some meaning itself beyond computer science? Beyond computer science, foo was a nonsense word that was used in comics and American popular culture of the early 20th century. …

Not one word, but I'd say you hit the nail squarely on the head in the question when you said arms overhead in a Y-shape. I instantly knew exactly what you meant.

For a long time, "set" had the most meanings in the OED, but now it is "run". From the New York Times of 25th May 2011: Which is the most lustrously complex word among the three quarters of a mi …

It's a normal "so" but capitalised for extra emphasis. The writer is saying the Denali name is redundant and oh so extremely old-fashioned. "So last month" is usually a fashion term that demonstrates …

Your Stack Overflow profile currently says: I'm an advanced typist. I can type in many languages, including Chinese, English, c++, php, javascript and SQL. Your Stack Overflow profile used to sa …

A dose is a quantity of a medicine or drug taken or recommended to be taken at a particular time: "he took a dose of cough medicine". A double dose would literally be to take two amounts at the same …

The Shorter Dictionary of Catch Phrases (1994) defines it: I'll see you in hell first a vehement refusal or a response to a challenge. The phrase dates from the late 19th century or earlier. Vari …

The phrase appears to date back to at least to 1940s America. Take-off: American all-girl bands during World War Two by Tonya Bolden (2007): SNAP YOUR CAP: Lose your cool. The book of Negro fol …

If it's in a dictionary, especially one with professional full-time editors, the chances are it's a real word. Of these kind of dictionaries, I can only find it in Collins, and their webpage notes it' …

The earliest example I found in Google News of this type of "signature strike" is in an article in ("Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper") Dawn on May 20, 2011. It quotes …

F-bomb refers to the use of the word fuck but isn't exactly the same as f-word. F-bomb implies the use of the swearword results in significant fallout. For example, a public figure uses the word in a …

In the Bourne Legacy, chem is short for chemical treatments, their program medication. From Yahoo Voices: Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) is part of Operation Outcome a black ops program similar to T …

A suite is a collection of things. A three-piece suite is a collection of a sofa and two armchairs. A set of connected rooms can be called a suite. The C-suite is a collection of people or job titles …

In British English, would this be named draughting? Drafting is common in British English, although draughting has been suggested: Given that this is Britain and not the USA, could we call th …