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"text": "Please, miss, I need to go to the lav.",
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"ref": "Quoted in 2006, Matt Houlbrook, Queer London (page 151)",
"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."
}
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"(British, slang) Clipping of lavatory."
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "non-offensive slang for a lavatory",
"word": "vessa"
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"sense": "non-offensive slang for a lavatory",
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"sense": "non-offensive slang for a lavatory",
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"sense": "non-offensive slang for a lavatory",
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"(film, informal) Clipping of lavalier."
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"ref": "Quoted in 2006, Matt Houlbrook, Queer London (page 151)",
"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."
}
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"Clipping of lavatory."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "non-offensive slang for a lavatory",
"word": "vessa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "non-offensive slang for a lavatory",
"tags": [
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"word": "petit coin"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "non-offensive slang for a lavatory",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Klo"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "non-offensive slang for a lavatory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "retrete"
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"word": "lav"
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