See ^W in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From the visual representation of the terminal encoding of the keypress Ctrl-W, the \"delete back to whitespace\" command in GNU readline, which is commonly available in GNU shells and other command-line utilities.",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English words spelled without vowels",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Internet",
"orig": "en:Internet",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
18,
24
]
],
"text": "Yeah, he's a real jerk^W civility-challenged fellow.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
101,
116
]
],
"text": "Well, Mimi, you’re old enough that you should go to parties now, so this should be your last year to tickle feet^W^W trick-or-treat.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Delete that last word."
],
"id": "en-^W-en-intj-tbXmr0lI",
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"Delete",
"delete"
],
[
"last",
"last"
],
[
"word",
"word"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Internet slang, usually humorous) Delete that last word."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "^H"
},
{
"word": "in Minecraft"
},
{
"word": "just kidding"
}
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"humorous",
"usually"
]
}
],
"word": "^W"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From the visual representation of the terminal encoding of the keypress Ctrl-W, the \"delete back to whitespace\" command in GNU readline, which is commonly available in GNU shells and other command-line utilities.",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
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{
"word": "^H"
},
{
"word": "in Minecraft"
},
{
"word": "just kidding"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English humorous terms",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English slang",
"English terms spelled with ^",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English words spelled without vowels",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Internet"
],
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{
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18,
24
]
],
"text": "Yeah, he's a real jerk^W civility-challenged fellow.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
101,
116
]
],
"text": "Well, Mimi, you’re old enough that you should go to parties now, so this should be your last year to tickle feet^W^W trick-or-treat.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Delete that last word."
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"Delete",
"delete"
],
[
"last",
"last"
],
[
"word",
"word"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Internet slang, usually humorous) Delete that last word."
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"humorous",
"usually"
]
}
],
"word": "^W"
}
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