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freebies

[free-bee] Origin

free·bie

[free-bee]
noun Informal.
something given without charge or cost, as a ticket to a performance or sporting event or a free sample at a store.
Also, free·bee.


Origin:
1940–45, Americanism; free + -bie, of uncertain origin; perhaps originally a noun phrase free bee, with bee2 as in put the bee on to borrow money with no intention of repaying it
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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.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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freebie
1942; as freeby, perhaps as early as 1900; from free.
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freebie definition

[ˈfribi]
and freebee; freeby
  1. n.
    something given away free. : They gave me a freebie with my purchase.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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