out-of-battery love

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  • adjective In firearms and artillery, a condition in which a live round is at least partially in the firing chamber and capable of being fired, but is not properly secured by the usual mechanism of that particular weapon.

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  • sakku, the original swiss solar bag solves the most annyoing problem that comes with most cell-phones, blackberrys, digital cameras, GPS trackers, and all the other electronical gadgets: "out-of-battery".

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