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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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