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"text": "Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin\nThey rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody\nHold that properly when I bang that dotty\nI put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby",
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"Cocaine."
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"(MLE) Cocaine."
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"ref": "1970, Great Britain. Milk Marketing Board. Breeding and Production Organization, Report of the Breeding and Production Organization:",
"text": "The already low proportion of Friesian and Hereford Friesian cross calves sold as bobbies declined to almost insignificant proportions and there was a very steep drop in the proportion of bobby calves in the other breeds",
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"ref": "2002, John Moran, Calf Rearing: A Practical Guide, →ISBN, page 44:",
"text": "The following is the Victorian code of practice as it refers to the welfare of bobby calves.",
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"ref": "2004, Primary Industries Standing Committee, Cattle, →ISBN, page 21:",
"text": "All bobby calves must be fed as close as possible to, and at least within 6 hours of, the time of transportation.",
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"ref": "2017 June 14, Sarah Catherall, “I tried to live plastic free for a week and it's impossible”, in The Press:",
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"A banana that is extra small in size."
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"General-American"
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