grok

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  • Come to think of it, after my apartment was broken into and ransacked last month, I don’t have any dishes at all.” —  Run For The Money
  • "The grok do not range too widely," answered her com - panion. —  Flight in Yiktor
  • The Lord Janger's war sign was a screaming grok-he would have never had such driven from his own inner keep. —  Flight in Yiktor
  • But there are other places to hunt for olden weapons besides a grok nest, little one. " —  Flight in Yiktor
  • "That such a weapon was left in a grok nest is a mystery beyond all mysteries. —  Flight in Yiktor
 

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  1. Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his Stranger in a Strange Land.
 

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