Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A novelty headband, popular in the 1980s, with two springy antenna-like protrusions topped with small pompoms or other ornaments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Originally a trademark, suggested by the wife of product marketer John Minkove; it had been her schoolfriend's placeholder name for an unspecified object (thus perhaps from dealie).
