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"Laker"
Stan Rogers song, "Your Laker's Back in Town" ... more »
"Limbeck"
"...the receipt of reason/ A limbeck only" – Lady Macbeth – The Tragedy of Macbeth ... more »
"Tick"
A John Denver song says "it took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick" about bedding ... more »
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