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  • adverb Common misspelling of basically.

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Examples

  • I've seen it done with "stactic" eletricity, which basicly is what "lightning" is.

    Colorado Skeet Shooters Hit By Lightning 2009

  • I've seen it done with "stactic" eletricity, which basicly is what "lightning" is.

    Colorado Skeet Shooters Hit By Lightning 2009

  • Readers may spot repeated spelling mistakes like "basicly" and "agressive" (it's not just a typo because it's repeated separately).

    Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Readers may spot repeated spelling mistakes like "basicly" and "agressive" (it's not just a typo because it's repeated separately).

    Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Just another traitor who thinks he is better than all the people who elected him. just like every other dem i have met. he basicly has said he will vote against those he is supposed to represent. just another dem who knows it all. well i hope he does loose his seat reguardless of the h/c outcome

    Freshman Dem: Passing health care reform worth losing my seat 2009

  • I know that meat probably ain't comming into the US (not for sure on this), so basicly I guess that it is mostly trophy hunting of dangerous game for sport.

    Morality of the kill 2009

  • But those struck me as the exception to the rule. basicly the 80 percent figure in the linked article strikes me as way too high.

    Matthew Yglesias » (Many) Books Are Too Long 2010

  • I know that meat probably ain't comming into the US (not for sure on this), so basicly I guess that it is mostly trophy hunting of dangerous game for sport.

    Morality of the kill 2009

  • Like most descriptive nouns that people use in political debates [ "yuppie," "working class", "elitist", ect] it basicly means whatever the person saying/writing it wants it to mean.

    Matthew Yglesias » The CAP/Dwell Connection 2010

  • Like most descriptive nouns that people use in political debates [ "yuppie," "working class", "elitist", ect] it basicly means whatever the person saying/writing it wants it to mean.

    Matthew Yglesias » The CAP/Dwell Connection 2010

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