Definitions

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  • noun Traditional brewer's mark for barrels of "extra strong" beer - extended to other alcoholic beverages and other products having an "extra strong" dimension (varying from washing soap to pornography).
  • noun An indicator of hazard or poison.
  • adjective Extra strong - very high quality
  • adjective X-rated, pornographic.
  • verb To delete; to edit, especially to conceal or suggest vulgar language.
  • noun The number thirty in Roman numerals.
  • noun computing Used as an indicator in source code to mark that some work still has to be done.

Etymologies

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Very doubtful - although possibly from X, a graphic derivative of the skull and crossbones ("indicator of death")

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Examples

  • RE: bailout package = $700 billion, Residential mortgage market (+derivatives) = $12 trillion, Commercial mortgage market = XXX billion, Leveraged loan market = $XXX billion, high yield market = $XXX billion, CDS market = $69 billion, + equity, commodity and various fixed income derivates, overvalued and illiquid real property and raw land = $XXXX billion.

    Safehaven 2008

  • Make $XXX, XXX Each Year With Simple Niche Blogs - OVER 40 Step By Step Videos

    Digital Point Forums easy autoblogs 2010

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    Digital Point Forums 2010

  • Say something like "I want to upgrade to the Treo 700p" and the telesales guy said it would be XXX amount but now they are telling me its +XXX amount."

    How To Negotiate What You Want From Sprint Retentions - The Consumerist 2007

  • Rather than defending the whaling as a matter of research, Norwegians should just say: Yes, it’s cruel, but pay us XXX XXX XXX$ for each whale we would otherwise kill, and we’ll find some other research to do.

    Archive 2005-03-01 Torill 2005

  • Rather than defending the whaling as a matter of research, Norwegians should just say: Yes, it’s cruel, but pay us XXX XXX XXX$ for each whale we would otherwise kill, and we’ll find some other research to do.

    Save Toby! Torill 2005

  • I don't know if this is a legal or simply a professional courtesy -- but when your book of short stories or poems finally appears, there ought to be a page or at least a few lines of acknowledgment, which will stay something like: "Stories in this collection previously appeared in other publications: XXX appeared in Ploughshares, under the title XXX; XXX and XXX appeared in the New Yorker; and an earlier version of XXX appeared in the Atlantic."

    More on copyright Miss Snark 2006

  • 'XXX' is unidentified in the report to protect confidentiality.

    Medpundit 2004

  • 'XXX' is unidentified in the report to protect confidentiality.

    Archive 2004-03-01 2004

  • I shoot the 100 grain XXX in my 25-06 handloaded to 3250 fps.

    Is there anybody out there that has shot Barnes bullets and if so did you like the performance and how bad did damage the meat? 2009

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