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"(informal, intransitive, often offensive) To hold a private conference."
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"intransitive",
"offensive",
"often"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "pau wau"
},
{
"word": "almost all capitalization"
},
{
"word": "punctuation"
},
{
"word": "and spacing variants are attested"
},
{
"word": "Pow-Wow"
}
],
"word": "powwow"
}
{
"called_from": "translations/609-20230504",
"msg": "Translation too long compared to word, so it is skipped",
"path": [
"powwow"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "powwow",
"trace": ""
}
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