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"etymology_text": "Backwards spelling of face.",
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85,
89
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"ref": "1990, Jean Shrimpton, Jean Shrimpton:",
"text": "He was very camp, and used all that weird gay backslang of the fifties[.] ‘Clock the ecaf, dear!’ they would say (look at the face).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1991, K. Porter; J. Weeks, Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men 1885–1967, said by Alex",
"text": "If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look."
},
{
"ref": "2022, Viper, producer Maddsnake, \"Honor Amongst Thieves\", in Pussy Boy Ill Kill Ya (All I Need Is Tha Money)",
"text": "I better not see you on my street / If I do, you gone see plenty heat / And let them bullets come straight at your ecaf / At your emod, cause you was a disgracе."
}
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"A person's face."
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"(Polari, back slang) A person's face."
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"ipa": "/ˈiː.keɪf/",
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{
"ipa": "/ˈi.keɪf/",
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},
{
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],
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"etymology_text": "Backwards spelling of face.",
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},
{
"ref": "1991, K. Porter; J. Weeks, Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men 1885–1967, said by Alex",
"text": "If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look."
},
{
"ref": "2022, Viper, producer Maddsnake, \"Honor Amongst Thieves\", in Pussy Boy Ill Kill Ya (All I Need Is Tha Money)",
"text": "I better not see you on my street / If I do, you gone see plenty heat / And let them bullets come straight at your ecaf / At your emod, cause you was a disgracе."
}
],
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"A person's face."
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"(Polari, back slang) A person's face."
],
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"ipa": "/ˈiː.keɪf/",
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"ipa": "/ˈi.keɪf/",
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},
{
"rhymes": "-iːkeɪf"
}
],
"word": "ecaf"
}
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