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 tap or a slap on a device in a way to either make it work correctly again, or break it completely. For example, hitting a TV to get its reception back, or hitting a jukebox back to life.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
History
The phrase became popular in the Second Industrial Revolution, when sometimes vacuum tubes or soldered connections would become loose.
