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RABBIT
Chatter (Rabbit and Pork = Talk).
[Rhyming] RACK OFF
Go away, get lost.
[Strine] RASH
Insensible to the value of our advice.
[Ambrose
Bierce] RASPBERRY
Fart; "He blew a raspberry" (Raspberry
Tart). [Rhyming] READING
An ingenious device for avoiding thought
[Helps] REALIST
One who describes things
worse than they are. See Satirist.
[Crisp] REALITY
[1] The dream of a mad philosopher.
[Ambrose Bierce]
[2] What doesn't go away when you stop believing in
it. [Philip K. Dick]
REBEL
One who says no.
[Albert Camus] RECESSION
When your neighbour loses his job (see depression).
[Harry S.
Truman] RECONSIDER
To seek a justification for a
decision already made.
[Ambrose Bierce] RECOVERY ROOM
A place to do reupholstery
[Rural] RECTITUDE:
A formal, dignified demeanor assumed by
a proctologist immediately before the examination.
[Anon] RECTUM
Dang near killed 'em
[Rural] RED BLOOD COUNT
Dracula
[Rural] REINTARNATION
Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
[Anon] RELIGION
The opium of the people.
[Karl Marx] REMARRIAGE
The triumph of hope over
experience
[Samuel Johnson] THE RENAISSANCE
[1] The
green end of a hard winter.
[John Fowles]
[2] A ripple on the surface of literature.
[C.S.Lewis] RESEARCH
A mere excuse for idleness;
it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value
[Benjamin
Jowett] RESIDENT
Unable to leave.
[Ambrose Bierce] REVOLUTION
[1] Struggle to the
death between the future and the past.
[Fidel Castro]
[2] A trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. [Stoppard]
REXY
Emmaciated, horribly thin (from anorexia) [attributed to
Kate Moss] RHEUMATIC
Amorous
[Rural] RIOT
The language of the unheard.
[Martin Luther King] RIPPER
Great, fantastic.
[Strine] ROMANTIC
One who describes things
better than they are. See Realist. [Crisp] ROPE
An appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal.
[Ambrose Bierce] ROUNDHEADS
Right but Repulsive (see Cavaliers)
[Sellar] ROVERCOAT
A dog blanket [Fred Shadbolt] RUSSIA
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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