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  1. zigzag
    a shape with sharp turns in alternating directions
  2. bread and butter
    the financial means whereby one lives
  3. rock and roll
    a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s
  4. higgledy-piggledy
    in a disordered manner
  5. wishy-washy
    weak in willpower, courage or vitality
  6. hoity-toity
    pretentious or excessively fancy
  7. abracadabra
    gibberish and nonsense
  8. mishmash
    a random assortment of things
  9. hanky panky
    verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
  10. Stars and Bars
    the first flag of the Confederate States of America
  11. honky-tonk
    a cheap drinking and dancing establishment
  12. dilly-dally
    waste time or postpone doing what one should be doing
  13. black-and-blue
    discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
  14. teeny-weeny
    (used informally) very small
  15. tutti-frutti
    ice cream containing chopped candied fruits
  16. mover and shaker
    a person who wields power and influence
  17. itsy-bitsy
    (used informally) very small
  18. hip-hop
    genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
  19. tidbit
    a small tasty bit of food
  20. chitchat
    light informal conversation for social occasions
  21. whippersnapper
    someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
Created on Wed Jan 04 09:41:40 EST 2012 (updated Wed Feb 08 08:17:38 EST 2012)

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