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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1989, Michael Moffatt, Coming of Age in New Jersey, page 86",
"text": "Last year's juniors had wedgied last year's freshmen, and then each freshman victim had happily joined the patrol, its aficionados claimed.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To play the wedgie prank on."
],
"links": [
[
"wedgie",
"#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) To play the wedgie prank on."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɛdʒ.i/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛdʒi"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-wedgie.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/49/En-au-wedgie.ogg/En-au-wedgie.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/En-au-wedgie.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:wedgie"
],
"word": "wedgie"
}
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