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top kicker In community card poker games, top kicker is the best possible kicker to some given hand. top pair In community card poker games, top pair is a pair comprising a pocket card and the highest-ranking card on the board. Compare with second pair, bottom pair top two A split two pair, matching the highest-ranking two flop cards. trap See ...
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Palilalia (from the Greek πάλιν (pálin) meaning "again" and λαλιά (laliá) meaning "speech" or "to talk"), [1] a complex tic, is a language disorder characterized by the involuntary repetition of syllables, words, or phrases. It has features resembling other complex tics such as echolalia or coprolalia, but, unlike other aphasias ...
Also called humanocentrism. The practice, conscious or otherwise, of regarding the existence and concerns of human beings as the central fact of the universe. This is similar, but not identical, to the practice of relating all that happens in the universe to the human experience. To clarify, the first position concludes that the fact of human existence is the point of universal existence; the ...
SNAFU. Private Snafu was a series of instructional cartoons devised by Frank Capra and produced by Warner Brothers animators such as Chuck Jones for the US Army during World War II. SNAFU is an acronym that is widely used to stand for the sarcastic expression Situation normal: all fucked up. It is a well-known example of military acronym slang.
The Rezillos – "Top of the Pops", "Destination Venus" The Rich Kids – "Rich Kids" Cliff Richard – "Please Remember Me" Tom Robinson Band – "Up Against The Wall", "Don't Take No for an Answer" Rokotto – "Funk Theory" Rose Royce – "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" San Jose featuring Rodriguez Argentina – "Argentine Melody (Cancion de ...
In the acknowledgements of his oft-cited memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," JD Vance wrote: "Last, but certainly not least, is my darling wife, Usha, who read every single word of my manuscript literally ...
On December 9, 2020, it was announced that Nicolas Cage would host an unscripted six-episode series about the history of swear words for Netflix. [1] [2]The series has been produced by Bellamie Blackstone, Mike Farah, Joe Farrell, and Beth Belew for Funny or Die, with Brien Meagher and Rhett Bachner for Industrial Media's B17 Entertainment respectively.