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Meaning:
Noun:
- A hard blow.
- Any of various units of currency used in Cyprus; Egypt; Lebanon; and formerly in the Republic of Ireland and Israel.
- A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- A unit of troy ounces (? 373.242 g).
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g)
- Short for pound-force, a unit of force/weight.
- The part of a canal between two locks, and therefore at the same water level.
- The unit of currency of used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies.
- # (octothorpe, hash)
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Verb:
- baseball|slang To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- slang To eat or drink very quickly.
- transitive To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
- transitive To strike (something or someone) hard repeatedly.
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