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Catchword for “wanr”

Catchword: wanr

Filed Under: English, China, Music

Part of Speech: v.

Quotation: A busload of French media of all kinds were flown in along with the 13 DJs and bands, and were busy photographing, videoing, recording and interviewing the more outgoing of the local revellers as they danced, screamed, disrobed (shirts from male bodies and nothing more; this was not a “Show us your tits” Woodstock) and, in the local parlance, wanr-ed (rhymes with “bar’: “Wah-er") until they could wanr no more.

Article or Document Title:
“Foreign Devil” (URL)

Author:
Jon Campbell

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
PopMatters

Date of Publication:
June 28, 2005

This catchword has yet to be researched.

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