colloq

The Oxford Reference Dictionary gives, as section 7 under floor, “colloq. ground”, but the usual formal meaning of ‘floor’ is a surface under cover, and ‘ground’ is a surface covered only by the sky.

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I can't remember the last time I saw colloq in a dictionary.

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I can't remember the last time I saw colloq in a dictionary.

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Hence to weigh in with: to introduce or produce something that is additional or extra. colloq.

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"Zanahary ... zanahary* (* Supernatural, divine; (colloq.) wonderful.) ..." which I later discovered was complimentary.

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Brit.colloq. an official who mindlessly upholds petty rules This week: words you wouldn't want to be called.

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In colloq. phr. to be packed (in) like sardines: to be crowded or confined tightly together, as sardines in a tin.

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Photographers 'colloq., the word' cheese 'notionally or actually pronounced to form the lips into a smiling expression.

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Entries are designated one or the other in almost random fashion (luck out, for instance, is called slang, hang loose is colloq), and in many instances (e.g., ticky-tacky) the problem is surmounted blithely by designating entries slang or colloq; others are not designated at all.

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six-pack n. colloq. a set of well-developed abdominal muscles; a lean, muscular midriff.

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