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"text": "Coordinate term: payslip"
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"text": "He was delighted after getting his first paycheck, but subsequently blew it all on the horses.",
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"ref": "1991, Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential",
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"ref": "2001, “Because I Got High”, in Because I Got High, performed by Afroman",
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