"deb" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "args": {
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      "expansion": "debut",
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  "etymology_text": "Clipping of debutante or debut.",
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    {
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      "tags": [
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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        {
          "ref": "1989, Michael Pakenham, The Bitter Web, Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd, page 41",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Harriet Evans, Beloved Girls, London: Headline Review, page 253",
          "text": "'The Honourable Hester Bingham,' she told Simon. 'They said she was the most stylish deb of her season. Me and Mama read all about her. That was the first season after the war, you know, and she wote a Hardy Amies dress when she was presented to the King and Queen.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Shelley Burr, Wake, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, page 269",
          "text": "After that little crash and burn, I guess my mother thought it would help to give me the same training. Social graces and deportment and all that bullshit. I even had a deb ball.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A debutante (a young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society)."
      ],
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        "(informal) A debutante (a young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society)."
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Gian Sardar, You Were Here, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 143",
          "text": "When I met him at my deb, I fell for him. Wanted nothing more than to marry him. That it happened, even after all those years, felt as if the stars had finally aligned.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A debutante ball or debut."
      ],
      "id": "en-deb-en-noun-kACkoaKD",
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        [
          "debut",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A debutante ball or debut."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "debs"
        }
      ],
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        "informal"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [],
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        {
          "ref": "1950, Hal Ellson, Tomboy, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 157",
          "text": "Then one night Liz showed up at the factory with a scratched face and torn blouse. She had been in a fight at the park with another girl, a deb of the Porto Rican Flyers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Donald Goines, Black Gangster, Los Angeles, C.A.: Holloway House Publishing Company, published 2004, page 38",
          "text": "I want you to take over absolute control of all the debs until Ruby is released. Your main job will be to see that most of the girls take at least two tricks a night someplace where the boys can roll them without too much trouble.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female member of a gang."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "female",
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        ],
        [
          "gang",
          "gang#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, dated) A female member of a gang."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
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      ]
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    {
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "US"
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  "etymology_text": "Shortening of debiel.",
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "(Belgium, offensive, colloquial) Clipping of debiel."
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      "expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English deb",
      "name": "ubor"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English deb.",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "#"
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  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "feminine",
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      ]
    }
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}

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        "3": "*təbuh"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pau",
        "2": "map-pro",
        "3": "*təbuS"
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      "expansion": "Proto-Austronesian *təbuS",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Pre-Palauan *ðəbu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh, from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS.",
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    {
      "args": {
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
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          "name": "Palauan entries with incorrect language header",
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      "glosses": [
        "sugar cane"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mww",
        "2": "hmx-pro",
        "3": "*qʷuw",
        "4": "",
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      "expansion": "Proto-Hmong-Mien *qʷuw (“far”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "ium",
        "2": "go"
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      "expansion": "Iu Mien go",
      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
        "1": "mww",
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  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "ipa": "/de˥/"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "debiel"
      },
      "expansion": "debiel",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of debiel.",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "-"
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          "word": "debiel"
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        "Clipping of debiel."
      ],
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        "(Belgium, offensive, colloquial) Clipping of debiel."
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  "categories": [
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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    "English nouns",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛb",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛb/1 syllable"
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    {
      "args": {
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "debut"
      },
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Clipping of debutante or debut.",
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    {
      "form": "debs",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
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    {
      "word": "debs"
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        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1989, Michael Pakenham, The Bitter Web, Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd, page 41",
          "text": "Go back to your debs or little boys if that's what you fancy and leave us hard working girls, the virile, mature and experienced working men of this world.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Harriet Evans, Beloved Girls, London: Headline Review, page 253",
          "text": "'The Honourable Hester Bingham,' she told Simon. 'They said she was the most stylish deb of her season. Me and Mama read all about her. That was the first season after the war, you know, and she wote a Hardy Amies dress when she was presented to the King and Queen.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Shelley Burr, Wake, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, page 269",
          "text": "After that little crash and burn, I guess my mother thought it would help to give me the same training. Social graces and deportment and all that bullshit. I even had a deb ball.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A debutante (a young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society)."
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A debutante (a young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
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        "English informal terms",
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Gian Sardar, You Were Here, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 143",
          "text": "When I met him at my deb, I fell for him. Wanted nothing more than to marry him. That it happened, even after all those years, felt as if the stars had finally aligned.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A debutante ball or debut."
      ],
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        [
          "debut",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A debutante ball or debut."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "debs"
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      "tags": [
        "informal"
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    },
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      "categories": [
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1950, Hal Ellson, Tomboy, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 157",
          "text": "Then one night Liz showed up at the factory with a scratched face and torn blouse. She had been in a fight at the park with another girl, a deb of the Porto Rican Flyers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Donald Goines, Black Gangster, Los Angeles, C.A.: Holloway House Publishing Company, published 2004, page 38",
          "text": "I want you to take over absolute control of all the debs until Ruby is released. Your main job will be to see that most of the girls take at least two tricks a night someplace where the boys can roll them without too much trouble.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female member of a gang."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
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        ],
        [
          "gang",
          "gang#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, dated) A female member of a gang."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "slang"
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛb"
    },
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