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"ref": "2014, Brian Conaghan, When Mr Dog Bites",
"text": "So Amir wingmanned me to Boots on my Johnny-bags buying mission.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2018, Elizabeth L. Brooks, Nights in Sandbridge",
"text": "They wingmanned for each other, and if they didn't have any luck, they'd screw each other.",
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{
"ref": "2019, John Glynn, Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer",
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"sense": "pilot partner",
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"masculine"
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"feminine"
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"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
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"sense": "pilot partner",
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"sense": "pilot partner",
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