Definitions
Wiktionary
- Alternative form of AWOL.
Examples
“So when Wolverine goes awol from the program, how do you stop him?!”
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“We really do miss "awol" and "five deferments" as those two were tragically funny.”
“Remember when "awol" resigned from the National Guard during the Vietnam war?”
“All she needs is a running mate who would be the real power just like "awol" had.”
“Like "awol" she is going to be a perfect puppet as she knows little and is not curious.”
“Moreover, if it was found they were "awol", then the SADF was negligent in failing to take adequate precautions to prevent members going "awol" from Apex base.”
“The SADF should have known or foreseen that its failure to do these things could lead to members going "awol", consuming excessive liqour and getting into confrontations with or assaulting members of the public.”
“And this is before coping with Lady Edith's quickfire tryst with the farmer plotline seemingly harvested midway and never mentioned again, Mr Bates and his Scooby-Doo villain wife, Mrs Crawley going awol to Europe and the Earl of Grantham's rampant haemorrhoids.”
“The club are sufficiently pragmatic to accept that rehabilitating the team's former captain is a lesser evil than watching him turn into a rapidly depreciating asset but they will insist Tevez must pay the fine of six weeks' wages – £1.2m – imposed for his going awol, plus any further sanction.”
The Guardian: Carlos Tevez returns to threat of fresh Manchester City fine
“Every international week has seen countless arguments, players going awol or straight postal.”
The Guardian: Köln in meltdown as Zvonimir Soldo is shown the door
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘awol’.
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outcasts
Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.
I wrote a little script that runs every day. It searches the Twitter API for tweets containing the words, "is not a word". Each (non...unfollow, suppose-ably, qirl, darkskin, haz, stoints, uglyer, boringest, fustrating, linx, yolo, excapes and 22540 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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passivepandora's Words
prescient, hysteria, thrombosis, asinine, argyle, absentee, blest, scruples, vestigial, awol, incomplete, entropy and 32 more...
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anacronyms
acronyms now used more commonly as words
fubar, snafu, radar, laser, sonar, scuba, pin, awol, wasp, asap, aids, cubar and 3 more...
Tweets
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