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"etymology_text": "Rhyming slang: Moby-Dick and sick.",
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"text": "2007, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard, Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade\nSo there ends up being puke everywhere […] I was like, 'I told you I was feeling Moby,' but she didn't answer […]"
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