See L7 on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "The shapes of the characters L and 7 form an approximate square when juxtaposed.", "forms": [ { "form": "L7s", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "L7 (plural L7s)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "sense": "L7 (band)", "word": "American rock band named from this expression" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English slang", "English terms spelled with numbers", "English terms with quotations", "English words without vowels", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1996, Leon Pettiway, Honey, Honey, Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets:", "text": "You will marvel at expressions like \"That one was a pain in my chewy\" and \"I was an L7, a square,\" as well as the expressive play they use with their friends: \"Oh, Miss Thang. Child, please. Bitch, it ain't all about you.\"", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2005, Paul Chamness Miller, Narratives from the Classroom: An Introduction to Teaching, page 77:", "text": "So while my intelligent-cool students knew that they were smart, they did not wear it on their sleeves for fear of being perceived as an L7 (a square), a nerd, or a geek.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2009, Jenny Lofters, Flying Backward in the Sky, page 11:", "text": "\"You're an L7.\"\n\"A what?\" he stopped in his tracks and asked.\n\"An L7. Put them together and you get a big old square.\"", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A square; a stuffy or uncool person." ], "links": [ [ "square", "square" ], [ "stuffy", "stuffy" ], [ "uncool", "uncool" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(slang) A square; a stuffy or uncool person." ], "tags": [ "slang" ] } ], "word": "L7" }
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