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murphy
noun- a potato UK, 1811
A belief that potatoes formed the basic diet in Ireland is reflected in this adoption of a common Irish surname. - I got some baked murphies here I want to warm up — Clive Exton, No Fixed Abode [Six Granada Plays], p. 119, 1959
- the condition that exists when someone pulls your trousers or underpants forcefully upwards, forming a wedge between the buttock cheeks US
Most commonly known as a “wedgie”. - — American Speech, Fall 1990
- a claim by a street drug dealer to his supplier that he lost his supply of drugs to robbers US
- If word got around that one person got away with running a Murphy, everybody would try it, everybody would try it and I’d be out of business in no time. — Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler, p. 122, 1994
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