[Fictionary] KONZO ballot

[J-J Cote]

 Here you go, eight fake definitions, one real definition, and one
explicitly joke definition from David. Send in your one-point and two-point
guesses before Labor Day weekend (although with all I have going on that
weekend, results will probably not come out until a few days after that, so
there's probably an implicit extension here). If you vote for David's joke
definition, you lose half of your wager!

Jean-Joseph
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konzo - n. - (fr. Igbo) A taboo-breacher who is to be sold as a slave.

konzo - n. - (derived from American Sign Language) - A rebus with no
solution.

konzo - n. - A dish of chopped vegetables, ground meat, and fried noodles,
created for U.S. troops in Korea.

konzo - n. - A fish of the species Larimichthys konzo, in the croaker
family, found around Shikoku, whose swim bladder is held to have medicinal
properties.

konzo - adj. - (classic and retro video game community) - of music or
especially sound effects, excellent, surprising. From Koji KONDO (composer
at Nintendo) + GONZO.

konzo - n. - 1. A traffic jam of hot-air balloons ascending and descending
over the same spot.  2. Obstruction of the mind by an attempt to rethink
too many beliefs at once.

konzo - n. - A hand lettering style in which ascenders and descenders
remain vertical but horizontals become oblique and parallel to the desired
layout angle. From the Japanese calligraphic style.

konzo - n. - An epidemic paralytic disease occurring among hunger-stricken
rural populations in Africa where a diet dominated by insufficiently
processed cassava results in simultaneous malnutrition and high dietary
cyanide intake. [fr. Yaka "tied legs"]

konzo - n. - [Port. konzo, agreement; from the legendary "O Konzo" between
several Alani and Hasdingi chieftains who agreed that the last of them
alive would take command of all their tribes; credited with forming the
central group of the Vandal invasion and conquest of North Africa in 428]
An agreement, similar to the French *tontine*, where the last survivor
takes ownership of the entire value of the investment.
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