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tea
1. a hot beverage served by the British between meals, as an additional opportunity to express their distaste for one another.
2. a similar beverage served in China which is the only element of their national diet not containing endangered animals.
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teach
1. to impart knowledge about something previously unknown.
2. to clear up a misunderstanding; e.g., “That’ll teach you.”
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team player
1. a gangster; a gang member.
2. one able to hold another down while the team goes to work.
3. one who has no prospects for becoming a leader.
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Technicality
n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: “Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder.” The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.
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technology
human development of tools; the scientific movement forward revolving around laziness, for which the body of human society is willing to step on and mangle its own reproductive organ; the future.
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Tedium
n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source — the first words of the ancient Latin hymn Te Deum Laudamus. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.
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teenager
a sort of diet human being—all the sex and murder, half the responsibility.
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teething
1. a condition affecting babies whereupon they are compelled to have something in their mouths at all times.
2. a similar condition affecting freshman and sophomore sorority girls.
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Teetotaler
n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

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