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thank-you-ma'am

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thank-you-ma'am

  [thangk-yoo-mam]
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–noun
a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
Origin:
1840–50, Americanism
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thank-you-ma'am   (thāngk'yōō-mām')   
n.  A bump or depression in a road.

[From its causing the head to nod as though in acknowledgment of a favor.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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