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hot dog
(redirected from Frankfurters)

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hot dog
Chiefly US a person who performs showy acrobatic manoeuvres when skiing or surfing


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But Kracauer's perspective also clearly differs from that of the Frankfurters in that he acknowledges the importance of contemporary social phenomena in themselves and the need to understand them on their own terms.
A single hot dog wrapper might not seem like much, but multiply it by the 26 million frankfurters consumed at major league baseball stadiums in 2002, add all the other junk generated by 68 million or so fans, and you get enough trash--about 34 million tons--to, well .
Within 50 years there were 2,000 artificial colors, used to color wool, silk, cotton, linen, hair, leather, paper, bones, ivory, feathers, straw, furniture and frankfurters.
 
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