n. a wastebasket. (See also file thirteen.) : Most of the junk mail sits here until I can put it into the circular file. , Oh, that letter? It went straight to the round file.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Circular fileis always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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.
