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11Carmelita (song) — Carmelita is a rock song written by Warren Zevon. The song is ostensibly about a heroin addicted writer in love with a Mexican girl, but, as with many songs on Warren Zevon , it might be more accurate to say that it is about Los Angeles than… …
12pawn — pawn1 pawnable, adj. pawner /paw neuhr/, pawnor /paw neuhr, nawr/, n. /pawn/, v.t. 1. to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, esp. with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch. 2. to pledge; stake; risk: to pawn one s life …
13Damages (season 3) — Damages Season 3 Region 1 DVD artwork Country of origin United States No. of episodes …
14List of Nurse Jackie episodes — Nurse Jackie, an American medical drama series created by Evan Dunsky, Liz Brixius and Linda Wallem, premiered on Showtime on June 8, 2009.[1] The series stars Edie Falco as title character Jackie Peyton, a nurse addicted to painkillers working… …
15borrowing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Obtaining temporary possession of Nouns 1. borrowing; mortgaging, financing, raising money; pawning, pledging, hypothecation. Slang, hitting up. See acquisition. 2. appropriation, use, taking, adoption;… …
16pop goes the weasel — Meaning Origin From the nursery rhyme. Popping is a slang term for pawning, i.e. depositing articles with a pawnbroker in return for money. Weasel is a corruption of whistle in cockney rhyming slang whistle and flute i.e. suit. So, Up and down… …
17pawn — [[t]pɔ͟ːn[/t]] pawns, pawning, pawned 1) VERB If you pawn something that you own, you leave it with a pawnbroker, who gives you money for it and who can sell it if you do not pay back the money before a certain time. [V n] He is contemplating… …
18Chez Ma Tante — A French euphemism for something that has been pawned – literally, “at my aunt’s.” Reporting on a recession driven fillip for Paris’s state owned pawnbroker, Le Crédit Municipal, Angelique Chrisafis wrote in The Guardian: 500 desperate Parisians… …
19At pawn — Pawn Pawn, n. [OF. pan pledge, assurance, skirt, piece, F. pan skirt, lappet, piece, from L. pannus. See {Pane}.] 1. Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See {Pledge}, n., 1.… …
20dimensional lumber — Lumber Lum ber, n. [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See… …
