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bung

a stopper, esp of cork or rubber, for a cask, piece of laboratory glassware, etc.
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Bung

experiences modified and extreme levels of want. [Br. Lit.: Sketches by Boz]
See: Poverty
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Kumaraendran, representing Bung and Zizie, had not objected to the transfer application.
It took a comeback for the ages from the country's top club, Ceres-Negros, to finally exorcise some old ghosts at Bung Karno on Tuesday night.
Using a bung, you can slide up and down to change depths and tune your leader as trout move up and down through the day, casting slightly further upwind to allow everything to settle and sink then using an imperceptibly slow figure of eight retrieve to keep in touch with the flies without moving them unnaturally.
"palconete't canon Revolver, Remington ang putoc bung bung"
MICHAEL Gove has denied the Tories' controversial PS1bn deal with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to prop up the minority Government amounts to a "bung" - a term used by Wales' First Minister Carwyn Jones.
The pressurizing bung can be used on other standard wands.
MASSIMO CELLINO has been charged by the FA following Mirror Sport's investigation that he allegedly paid a PS185,000 transfer bung.
Derby winner Bung-fu Panda St Mirren have added some fun to fundraising by introducing their Bung a Baw scheme.
* Make sure the fuel tank and bung are clean and dry before you install the bung.
HARRY Redknapp said he was "sick and tired" of bung slurs and claimed he was victimised because of his Cockney accent, a court heard yesterday.
Redknapp was said to have told police "I don't fiddle" as he and co-defendant Milan Mandaric gave contradicting explanations for the pounds 189,000 "bung".
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