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minus - -

Common: dash; ITU-T: hyphen; ITU-T: minus. Rare: INTERCAL: worm; option; dak; bithorpe.
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The words of some people might generally be written with a minus sign after them, the minus meaning that the personality of the speaker subtracted from, rather than added to, their weight; but Rebecca's words might always have borne the plus sign.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
He commenced dressing at top by donning his beaver hat, a very tall one, by the by, and then --still minus his trowsers -- he hunted up his boots.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
He had a good and mild countenance, without expression -- a mathematician minus the pride.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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