See semi in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"msg": "LUA error in #invoke('string/templates', 'match', '[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bDjznmbh04&list=OLAK5uy_mryDF-cyCBUJLwog6CzAed5-RF4I1dvB0&t=48 0:48]', '^0:(%d%d)$') parent ('Template:quote-song', {1: 'en', 'lyricist': '[[w:Summrs|Summrs]]', 'title': 'Got Dat Muneh', 'date': '28-04-2023', 'url': 'https://genius.com/Summrs-got-dat-muneh-lyrics', 'time': '[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bDjznmbh04&list=OLAK5uy_mryDF-cyCBUJLwog6CzAed5-RF4I1dvB0&t=48 0:48]', 'album': 'GHOST', 'track': '10', 'passage': \"See these niggas through the reticle sight up on my '''semi'''<br/>\\U0010203f…\\U00102040<br/>For niggas plottin', I might blow it at your fitted<br/>Get your bitch-ass slimed out, it ain't no kiddin'<br/>Ain't no kiddin', got that '''semi'''\"})",
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"#invoke",
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"Lua:Module:quote:quote_t()",
"frame:preprocess()",
"Template:ifmatch",
"ARGVAL-3",
"Template:ifmatch",
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"Template:ifmatch",
"ARGVAL-4",
"Template:ifmatch",
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"#invoke",
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"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "semi",
"trace": "[string \"Module:string/templates\"]:515: Pattern string is empty"
}
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