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"text": "14 June 2012, Scott Tobias, \"Weird Al's UHF is uneven, but that just made it ahead of its time\", The A.V. Club\nYankovic stars as George Newman, a daydreaming wage slave whose overactive imagination keeps standing between him and a steady paycheck."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shèchù",
"sense": "one who works for wages",
"word": "社畜"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "one who works for wages",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "loonslaaf"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who works for wages",
"word": "palkkaorja"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "one who works for wages",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "esclave salarié"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who works for wages",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Lohnsklave"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who works for wages",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Berufsmensch"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shachiku",
"sense": "one who works for wages",
"word": "社畜"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one who works for wages",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "escravo do salário"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "one who works for wages",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "escravo assalariado"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "one who works for wages",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "löneslav"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
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