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{
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"cigarette paper"
],
[
"perpendicularly",
"perpendicularly"
],
[
"joint",
"joint"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) two cigarette papers laid perpendicularly on each other when making a joint"
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"word": "L"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English words without vowels",
"en:Baseball",
"en:Fifty",
"en:Size",
"en:Twelve"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Abbreviation.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "L (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "of the manufactured size",
"word": "large"
}
],
"categories": [
"English initialisms",
"en:Clothing"
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of large (of the manufactured size)."
],
"links": [
[
"clothing",
"clothing#Noun"
],
[
"large",
"large#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(usually clothing) Initialism of large (of the manufactured size)."
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"initialism",
"not-comparable",
"usually"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"clothing",
"fashion",
"lifestyle",
"manufacturing",
"textiles"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "left"
}
],
"categories": [
"English initialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of left."
],
"links": [
[
"left",
"left#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"initialism",
"not-comparable"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "variety of a language with limited prestige and official acceptance",
"word": "low"
}
],
"categories": [
"English initialisms",
"en:Linguistics"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "an L variety"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of low (variety of a language with limited prestige and official acceptance)."
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"low",
"low#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) Initialism of low (variety of a language with limited prestige and official acceptance)."
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"initialism",
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "W"
}
],
"categories": [
"English slang"
],
"glosses": [
"(from loser) Subpar, of inferior quality."
],
"links": [
[
"loser",
"loser#English"
],
[
"Subpar",
"subpar"
],
[
"quality",
"quality"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) (from loser) Subpar, of inferior quality."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable",
"slang"
]
}
],
"word": "L"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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