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Hemp is the male plant and it grows like a weed, hence the slang term.
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Judges are as free as two-year-olds to order whatever they think is icky to stop, and to demand that people not to talk about or attempt to deal with aspects of life they find icky or unpleasant or “irrational”, to use the jargon term.
The Volokh Conspiracy » My Torts Class, and Alienation of Affections: 2009
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I know from years of covering religion that "fundamentalist" is a pejorative term.
Hindu fundamentalists turn their wrath on Chaplin | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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I just do not want a so called journalist, who lectures other journalists about their mistakes, to not have to explain the choice of such a pejorative term.
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Whatever may be an object of thought, or may occur in any true or false proposition, or can be counted as one, I call a term.
Jamestown 2009
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As an adult, I learned that "Miss Ann" is a slang term.
This tree is far too overbearing... Ann Althouse 2009
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The reason: Fascism is viewed as a pejorative term.
OpEdNews - Diary: Keith Olbermann's Special Comment: "Mr. Bush You Are A Fascist!" 2008
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She was witness and often instigator of the drunk face, so it is apt that she coined the term.
Thursday January 17 MissJordyPants 2008
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She was witness and often instigator of the drunk face, so it is apt that she coined the term.
Archive 2008-02-01 MissJordyPants 2008
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The person who first figured this out was Japanese, and he coined the term.
Mark Strausman: What You Don't Know About Your Tongue Might Be Making You Fat 2008
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