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Only a few more days until Beethoven's birthday, and I've received
only a handful of votes, so get those votes in! Remember, you don't
have to have submitted a definition in order to vote.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/9/2022 12:19 PM, Jean-Joseph Cote
wrote:<br>
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Here we have several incorrect and one correct definitions for the
work UCALEGON. As usual, submit your two- and one-point guesses,
let's say by Beethoven's birthday.<br>
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Jean-Joseph<br>
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ucalegon - adj. - Performing digestion outside of the body.<br>
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ucalegon - n. - The dregs remaining after draining a krater of
wine. <br>
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ucalegon<span class="pos-bs badge alert-danger"> - n. -</span> A
neighbor whose house is on fire or has burned down.<br>
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ucalegon - n. - A three-sided French casserole dish, used for
cooking squash.<br>
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ucalegon - n. - A novelty stringed instrument played like a
dulcimer in the lap or on a table. <br>
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ucalegon - n. - In Zakharov's doctrine of Undetectability, the
property of not being observed.<br>
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ucalegon - n. - The part of a parasitic barnacle that wraps around
the internal organs of the host.<br>
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ucalegon - n. - In thermionics, a two-terminal component through
which heat can flow in only one direction. (Properly used only of
the convective heat diode or 'turnstile of Anaxagoras', but
commonly applied to other designs as well.) <br>
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<div>Additional joke definitions -- do not vote!<br>
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UCALEGON - Vanity license plate on the car of ghostbuster Egon
Spengler, who is proud of his Paraphychics degree from Berkeley.<br>
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ucalegon - n. - A polygon with twice as many sides as an
ithielegon.<br>
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ucalegon - n. - A hypothesized noble gas with atomic number 168.<br>
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ucalegon - n. - The odd 5-sided shape of a grass area in the
University of California that they can't call a quad.<br>
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