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Provided by the compucert gesticulate \juh-STIK-yuh-layt\, intransitive verb:
- To make gestures or motions, especially while speaking or instead of speaking.
- To indicate or express by gestures.
Urban Word of the Day
November 12, 2007: pushing prizehttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pushing+prize&defid=2124204
- A gift for a new mother, typically an expensive piece of jewellery. "Pushing" refers to labour of childbirth.
She got a diamond ring, it's gorgeous!
Trivia
What does the K stand for in K-rations, the emergency nutritional field rations used by the Army during World War II?
- Keys. The meals were named for Ancel Keys, the biologist who developed them.
- Leonids: meteor shower was recorded for the first time (1799)
- Japan: war criminals sentenced to death, including PM Hideki Tojo (1948)
- Ellis Island: immigration station officially closed its doors; it had processed more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892 (1954)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902): co-founder of the Seneca Falls Convention
- Baha'u'llah (1817-1892): leader of the Baha'i faith
- Grace Kelly (1929-1982): actress, princess of Monaco
- Neil Young (62): rock musician
- Sammy Sosa (39): home run slugger
- Anne Hathaway (25): actress, The Devil Wears Prada
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