trimmings

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trim·ming

   [trim-ing]
noun
1.
anything used or serving to decorate or complete: the trimmings of a Christmas tree.
2.
Usually, trimmings. an accompaniment or garnish to a main dish: roast turkey with all the trimmings.
3.
trimmings, pieces cut off in trimming, clipping, paring, or pruning.
4.
the act of a person or thing that trims.
5.
Informal. a beating or thrashing.
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6.
Informal. a defeat: Our team took quite a trimming.
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Origin:
1510–20; trim + -ing1
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Trimmings is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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.
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trimmings
"adornments, accessories, etc.," 1612, from trim (v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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