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creep joint — AND creep dive n. an unpleasant place populated by creeps. □ You shouldn’t go into a creep joint like that alone. □ Why would anyone want to work in a creep dive like that? … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
creep joint — noun a) A brothel or other disreputable or low class place, especially where patrons are robbed. Took my public school training in three jails and a plenty of pool rooms, went to college in a gang of tea pads, earned my Ph.D. in more creep joints … Wiktionary
creep joint — noun 1. : a gambling establishment that changes its location each night 2. : a brothel in which a patron s clothes are rifled 3. : any place of unsavory reputation (as one frequented by homosexuals) … Useful english dictionary
creep dive — Go to creep joint … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
Mission creep — is the expansion of a project or mission beyond its original goals, often after initial successes.[1] Mission creep is usually considered undesirable due to the dangerous path of each success breeding more ambitious attempts, only stopping when a … Wikipedia
Copper wire and cable — Copper has been used in electric wiring since the invention of the electromagnet and the telegraph in the 1820s.[1][2] The invention of the telephone in 1876 proved to be another early boon for copper wire.[3] Today, despite competition from… … Wikipedia
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Glossary of cue sports terms — The following is a glossary of traditional English language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom (or carambole) billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool (pocket… … Wikipedia
Foreign internal defense — (FID) is used by a number of Western militaries, explicitly by the United States but sharing ideas with countries including France and the United Kingdom, to describe an approach to combating actual or threatened insurgency in a foreign state… … Wikipedia
