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impot en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (dated, slang) Synonym of imposition (“task imposed on a student as punishment”)
    • I've known scores of chaps get impots from him, and they all had to do the Greek numerals. He's mad on the Greek numerals. 1902, P. G. Wodehouse, The Politeness of Princes and other School Stories:
    • At first school / Sleepy looks, / Many yawns, / Inks Books, / Ask'd questions, / Makes shots, / Is set / Impots. 1870, The Marlburian, page 183:

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imposition