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  • 71spiral bandage — a bandage wound round a part of the body, overlapping the previous section at each turn. * * * a roller bandage applied spirally around a limb …

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  • 72clackers — n pl Scottish balls (in both the literal and figurative slang senses). The word, recorded in the early 1990s, was the name of a fashiona ble children s toy of the 1970s consisting of two plastic balls on a string wound round the fingers and… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 73bar — [[t]bɑ͟ː(r)[/t]] ♦♦ bars, barring, barred 1) N COUNT A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks. [mainly AM] ...Devil s Herd, the city s most popular country western bar. ...the Brass Nickel Bar. 2) N COUNT A bar is a room in a …

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  • 74French horn — French horns N VAR: oft the N A French horn is a musical instrument of the brass family. It is shaped like a long metal tube with one wide end, wound round in a circle. You play the French horn by blowing into it and moving valves in order to… …

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  • 75tape — [[t]te͟ɪp[/t]] ♦♦ tapes, taping, taped 1) N UNCOUNT: oft on N Tape is a narrow plastic strip covered with a magnetic substance. It is used to record sounds, pictures, and computer information. Tape is expensive and loses sound quality every time… …

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  • 76turban — [[t]tɜ͟ː(r)bən[/t]] turbans N COUNT A turban is a long piece of cloth that is wound round the head. It is worn by Sikh men and by some Hindu and Muslim men …

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  • 77puttee — [ pʌti] noun a strip of cloth wound round the leg from ankle to knee for protection and support. Origin C19: from Hindi paṭṭī band, bandage …

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  • 78snub — verb (snubs, snubbing, snubbed) 1》 ignore or spurn disdainfully. 2》 restrict the movement of (a horse or boat) by means of a rope wound round a post. noun an act of snubbing. adjective (of a person s nose) short and turned up at the end. Origin… …

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  • 79turban — noun a man s headdress, consisting of a long length of material wound round a cap or the head, worn especially by Muslims and Sikhs. Derivatives turbaned (also turbanned) adjective Origin C16: via Fr. from Turk. tülbent, from Pers. dulband …

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  • 80winding — [ wʌɪndɪŋ] noun 1》 a twisting movement or course. 2》 a thing that winds or is wound round something.     ↘a coil of conducting wire in an electric motor, generator, etc. adjective having a twisting or spiral course …

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