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"word": "搶跑"
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"sense": "starting before the signal",
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"word": "falsa partenza"
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"sense": "starting before the signal",
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"word": "фальста́рт"
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"sense": "starting before the signal",
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"word": "salida en falso"
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"The act of an offensive player moving across the line of scrimmage prior to the snap."
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"ref": "1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, page 422",
"text": "After a \"false start\" that was too vigorous, overloading the motors, No. D171 made a very successful unassisted run from Tyne Dock to Consett.",
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{
"ref": "2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club",
"text": "He spent nearly 20 years developing the movie, keeping at it through false starts and heartbreaking dead ends. And when he got the chance to make it, he went all in, devising entire societies full of baroquely souped-up death machines and screaming war-cults.",
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"ref": "1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, page 422",
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{
"ref": "2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club",
"text": "He spent nearly 20 years developing the movie, keeping at it through false starts and heartbreaking dead ends. And when he got the chance to make it, he went all in, devising entire societies full of baroquely souped-up death machines and screaming war-cults.",
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "sortida falsa"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"word": "假起動"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎ qǐdòng",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"word": "假起动"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"word": "搶跑"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiǎngpǎo",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"word": "抢跑"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "starting before the signal",
"word": "varaslähtö"
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"sense": "starting before the signal",
"tags": [
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"word": "faux départ"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Fehlstart"
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "starting before the signal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "þjófstart"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "falsa partenza"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "furaingu",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"word": "フライング"
},
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fusei sutāto",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"word": "不正スタート"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "falstart"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "falʹstárt",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "фальста́рт"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "salida en falso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "starting before the signal",
"tags": [
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"word": "salida nula"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "starting before the signal",
"tags": [
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"word": "tjuvstart"
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"word": "false start"
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