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  1. noun Scots Sweetheart; dear.

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  • His friend the Martian has just caught him on the jo-jo and is attempting to pull him to safety PUBLISHING CORPORATION WANTED: STILL MORE PLOTS IN this issue of the QUARTERLY you will find the final story resulting from the Interplanetary Plot Contest first announced in the Spring 1931 QUARTERLY, as well as the first story resulting from our new Plot Contest. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
  • In appearance and function the device was similar to the "jo-jo" toys with which Earth children of the first half of the twentieth century had played. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
  • The little Martian's skill with the jo-jo was as superb as it was apparently pointless. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
  • Again he was toying absently with that jo-jo of his. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
  • When he entered, Pakoh was seated before his instrument panel, and was leisurely and absently toying with his jo-jo. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
 

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  1. Alteration of joy.

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  1. Japanese , from Chin, chang, a measure of ten Chinese feet.
 

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