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folklore collapse: the unwritten literature (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture

wait collapse: the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something); "the wait was an ordeal for him"; serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant; "I'm waiting on tables at Maxim's"; stay in one place and anticipate or expect something; "I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets"; wait before acting; "the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment"

prescriptive collapse: pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"

constituency collapse: the body of voters who elect a representative for their area

swan song collapse: a final performance or effort (especially before retirement)

etymology collapse: the study of the sources and development of words; a history of a word

venerable collapse: impressive by reason of age; "a venerable sage with white hair and beard"

science fiction collapse: literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society

John Doe collapse: an unknown or fictitious man who is a party to legal proceedings; a hypothetical average man

parable collapse: (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message; "the parable of the prodigal son"

conventional collapse: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"; unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"; (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"; in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake"; conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"; represented in simplified or symbolic form

scat collapse: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument; flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

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