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gates noun 1 used as a term of address, male-to-male, usually collegial US, 1936. 2 marijuana US, 1966. 3 a house BERMUDA, 1985
idiomgatesthe pearly gatesreligion a humorous expression meaning the entrance to heaventhe place where many people believe you go when you die:I feel that Angel Gabriel will ask me at the pearly gates: Ilsa, did you lead a good life?They wondered whether Aldous Huxley and John F. Kennedy had shared a fiery chariot to the pearly gates, since Huxley had died the previous day.
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