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the seven bells en · X

Etymology

From seven bells.

Meanings

  1. (slang) Used as an intensifier after an interrogative pronoun.
    • That's simple enough, but why the seven bells doesn't the documentation say so? Instead it talks about resources, but nowhere defines what a resource is, or what the syntax is for describing one. 2008 May 7, Robert Billing, “Are things getting difficult?”, in uk.comp.os.linux (Usenet):

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