"wall of text" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wall of text.wav Forms: walls of text [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|walls of text}} wall of text (plural walls of text)
  1. (chiefly Internet slang) An intimidatingly large block of writing, particularly one with few or no paragraph breaks. Tags: Internet Synonyms: text wall Related terms: copypasta, info-dump Translations (an intimidatingly large block of writing): 스크롤 압박 (seukeurol apbak) (Korean), parede de texto [masculine] (Portuguese), textão [masculine] (Portuguese), простыня́ (prostynjá) [feminine] (Russian), портя́нка (portjánka) [feminine] (Russian), biblia (Spanish), testamento (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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