A group of trials of Soviet officials in the 1930s initiated by the premier, Joseph Stalin. Large numbers of these officials were imprisoned or executed for alleged disloyalty to Stalin. (SeeStalinism.)
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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.