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  • n  a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

  • There's no reason to look like an "OL," or old lady, in Krupp's parlance, when you can look Y H younger and hipper, that is.
  • Williams, 40, recently decided to hitch his fortunes to the Southern California home market, buying houses, fixing them up and--in the parlance of our times--flipping them for a .
  • Like Ginsu knives or the George Foreman grill, the Snuggie has become synonymous with "direct-response advertising" the preferred industry parlance for commercials that feature .
News & Articles

  • University of Memphis picked to host new conference's tennis tournament
    After playing host to the Conference USA men’s tennis tournament in April, the University of Memphis will, in the sport’s parlance, hold serve.
    June 12, 2013 - Memphis Commercial Appeal
  • How Big Is the NSA's Police State, Really?
    As you probably know, "the cloud" in Internet parlance isn't an actual cloud. The Internet's cloud refers to remote storage of information and the network that connects to it. What tech companies pitch as a nebulous intangibility is really just stacks and stacks of servers with direct connections to the rest of the world. Things that take up physical space, in other words.
    June 11, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
  • Memphis to host American Athletic Conference tennis tournament in 2014
    After playing host to the Conference USA tennis tournament in April, the University of Memphis will, in the sport’s parlance, hold serve.
    June 11, 2013 - Memphis Commercial Appeal
Quotes

  • Mike Rann in CNN International
    He was a quiet, taciturn, recessive hero who avoided parties and went back to his hotel room and wrote his newspaper column, every night, and a daily letter to his wife Jessie,Rann said Wednesday. "In Australian parlance he was the tall...
  • George Casey in International Herald Tribune
    Baghdad is "critical in the overall campaign. In military parlance we would say it's the center of gravity for the country," Casey said. "Everybody knows that. The bad guys know it, we know it, the Iraqis know it. So we have to help the...
  • Kurt Warner in USA Today
    When he gave speeches or interviews, Papa often called Zardari a chor, a thief. He coined the term 'Asif baba and the chalees chor', 'Asif Baba and the forty thieves' which became an instant hit (it remains part of the popular parlance to this day,... Fatima Bhutto http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_Bhutto&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGOXxSSAAaEMOrbtCc8krulwaiQHg Times of India http://www.google.com/url?q=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Zardari-tried-to-bribe-my-father-Fatima-Bhutto/articleshow/5759005.cms&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEOK6i9kxiEgeYHgQ6IfWyEGA4-Kg Apr 4, 2010 72345 96773 parlay I hope this gives us a lot of confidence," Warner said. "I knew we thought we could win this game. Hopefully we can parlay this into some more confidence and know we can win wherever we have to go."

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