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noun

• "nerd"; "geek". From the preferred outerwear of birdwatchers, trainspotters, etc. Origin: British.
  • See more words with the same meaning: British, UK slang (list of).
  • See more words with the same meaning: a nerd, geek, dork.

  Last edited on Apr 25 2013. Submitted by Dylan H. from Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK on Jun 17 2003.

• a situation with no possible positive outcome.

  Last edited on Sep 09 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.

• to contribute one's share.

  Last edited on Sep 02 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.

noun

• any place where more than one person appears to have a nasty cough.
  
  Origin: so named because patients in hospitals are grouped in "wards" and one symptom of respiratory anthrax (fatal) is a nasty cough.

  Man, this office is the anthrax ward today.

  Last edited on Jul 17 2013. Submitted by Justin S. from Los Angeles, CA, USA on Dec 10 2004.

adjective

• crooked, uneven, or out of alignment. Similar to whopperjawed.

  Last edited on Jun 02 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jun 02 2010.

adjective

• spelling variant of antigogglin.

  Last edited on Mar 30 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 30 2011.

noun

• Anti-Jewism is the broad, typically racist hatred of Jews, commonly (but incorrectly) termed "anti-Semitism"
  
  Compare to anti-Zionism (the hatred of Zionism) and anti-Jewarchism (the hatred of all forms of Jewish corruption, including, but not limited to, Zionism)

  Last edited on Aug 07 2016. Submitted by Anonymous on Aug 07 2016.