poof

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Shut down banking for a short time, send Fed auditors into those banks that the FDIC has on a watch list to look at their books, determine if they are solvent, then reopen those banks that are. * poof* Inter-bank lending confidence can be restored with minimal time and cost to the taxpayer.

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  1. interjection Used to indicate a sudden vanishing: The magician waved a wand, and poof! The birds disappeared!
  2. noun Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for an effeminate or homosexual male.

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  • And "poof" - he's still a toad - no matter how many times Billo kisses him. —  Think Progress
  • Web 2.0 may fail, but it will take a lot of people's data with it when it does - and will not be any warning, it'll just go - * poof*. —  ON: Digital+Marketing
  • Just put them through the wringer of Limbaugh's perpetual judgment and, poof, there's no problem anymore. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Suddenly -- poof -- Mike is magically transformed into a 17-year-old boy (played by Efron). —  Sierra Sun - Top Stories
  • And poof, the randomizer coughed up that exact battle. —  GoFugYourself
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  1. Imitative.
  2. Probably alteration of puff, braggart, homosexual man, from puff (influenced by poof1).
 

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