See frack on Wiktionary
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"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"english": "tuxedo; dinner jacket",
"word": "smoking"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish nouns",
"Swedish terms borrowed from German",
"Swedish terms derived from German"
],
"glosses": [
"a tailcoat"
],
"links": [
[
"tailcoat",
"tailcoat"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"wikipedia": [
"sv:frack"
]
}
],
"word": "frack"
}
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