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
An image which causes insanity or death upon viewing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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Broader terms: cognitohazard, basilisk, hazard, danger
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Langford's basilisk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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History
After an object in David Langford's short story BLIT (1988).
