"salugi" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "See Saluki.",
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          "ref": "1931, Ernest Wallis Budge, Egyptian Tales and Romances, page 119:",
          "text": "And when the boy had grown up, he went up on the roof of his house and he saw a salūgī (i.e. greyhound or hunting dog) which was following a man who was walking on the highway.",
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          "ref": "1939, Thomas Edward Lawrence, The Letters of T.E. Lawrence, page 159:",
          "text": "He had four Salugis, all hairless ones, of a biscuit colour, very large to my eyes. I measured them and they were from 22-24 inches high, very ugly dogs, of the slinking type",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, Cyrus H. Gordon, The Living Past, page 75:",
          "text": "An animal appearing frequently on these seals was the salugi. It is a dog of the greyhound type still common in the Near East. Fortunately for the salugi, it is not classed as a dog in Arabic.",
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      "form": "saloogie",
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      "form": "sloogie",
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        "alternative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "saluggi",
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          "ref": "1956, Gerald Green, The Last Angry Man, page 193:",
          "text": "They had seized the tan derby of one of their number; three others in sharp suits and silk waistcoats were tossing it around in a wild game of salugi.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, Jay Neugeboren, Big Man, page 55:",
          "text": "Then he grabs a hat off Jim, a guy about my age who never says anything, and they all playing saloogie around him with it like a bunch of kids.",
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        {
          "ref": "1995, August Kleinzahler, “The Old Schoolyard in August”, in The American Poetry Review, volume 24, page 24:",
          "text": "the taste of pencils and Louis Bocca's ear / torn off by the fence in a game of salugi.",
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        "A keep-away game in which children throw around an object with the aim of keeping it away from a particular child (often the owner of the object) or from another group of children; keepings off."
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        "(informal, US, New York) A keep-away game in which children throw around an object with the aim of keeping it away from a particular child (often the owner of the object) or from another group of children; keepings off."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
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        {
          "word": "monkey in the middle"
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          "word": "piggy in the middle"
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          "text": "He had four Salugis, all hairless ones, of a biscuit colour, very large to my eyes. I measured them and they were from 22-24 inches high, very ugly dogs, of the slinking type",
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          "ref": "1956, Gerald Green, The Last Angry Man, page 193:",
          "text": "They had seized the tan derby of one of their number; three others in sharp suits and silk waistcoats were tossing it around in a wild game of salugi.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, Jay Neugeboren, Big Man, page 55:",
          "text": "Then he grabs a hat off Jim, a guy about my age who never says anything, and they all playing saloogie around him with it like a bunch of kids.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, August Kleinzahler, “The Old Schoolyard in August”, in The American Poetry Review, volume 24, page 24:",
          "text": "the taste of pencils and Louis Bocca's ear / torn off by the fence in a game of salugi.",
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