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"roman": "registǎr",
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"word": "регистър"
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"sense": "police station register",
"word": "記事簿"
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"roman": "jìshìbù",
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "police station register",
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"word": "brogliaccio"
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"alt": "регистра́ции приво́дов в полице́йском уча́стке",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žurnál",
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],
"word": "журна́л"
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"ref": "2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive",
"text": "Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.",
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"A portion of blotter acid."
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"(slang) A portion of blotter acid."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "registǎr",
"sense": "police station register",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "регистър"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "police station register",
"word": "記事簿"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jìshìbù",
"sense": "police station register",
"word": "记事簿"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "police station register",
"tags": [
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"word": "Protokollbuch"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "police station register",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Polizeiregister"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "police station register",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "registro"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "police station register",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "brogliaccio"
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"alt": "регистра́ции приво́дов в полице́йском уча́стке",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žurnál",
"sense": "police station register",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "журна́л"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "regístr",
"sense": "police station register",
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"word": "реги́стр"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "kníga zápisej",
"sense": "police station register",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "кни́га за́писей"
}
],
"word": "blotter"
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