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Provided by the compucert tatterdemalion \tat-uhr-dih-MAYL-yuhn; -MAY-lee-uhn\, noun:
- A person dressed in tattered or ragged clothing; a ragamuffin.
- Tattered; ragged.
Tatterdemalion derives from tatter + -demalion, of unknown origin, though perhaps from Old French maillon, "long clothes, swadding clothes" or Italian maglia, "undershirt."
- What someone would say to insinuate that it was their style, or that it was the way they usually do things.
Yo man so did you already hit it or what?
Yeah, you know that's how I roll.
Trivia
Who brought the first bathtub into the U.S.?
- Benjamin Franklin, in 1790. It was a “slipper bath”—shaped like a shoe, with a heating device in the heel and a drain in the toe.
- secret ballot: new voting method was introduced in Britain (1872)
- FDR: was nominated for an unprecedented third term in office (1940)
- Nadia Comaneci: earned the first perfect score in Olympics gymnastics (1976)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863): author of Vanity Fair; writers Clifford Odets (1906-1963) and Jessamyn West (1907-1984) share this birth date
- Andrey Gromyko (1909-1989): Soviet statesman
- John Glenn, Jr. (87): astronaut and senator
- Dick Button (79): champion figure skater
- Dion DiMucci (69): singer, Dion and the Belmonts; lead singer Martha Reeves (67) was also born on this date
- Kristen Bell (28): Veronica Mars and titular narrator of Gossip Girl; other actors born on this date include James Brolin (68), Vin Diesel (41) and Elizabeth McGovern (47)
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