Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
BACKFLIP
Etymology
Noun
backflip (plural backflips)
(gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.
(by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
• Courier Mail, 29 Jan 2007
Verb
backflip (third-person singular simple present backflips, present participle backflipping, simple past and past participle backflipped)
To perform a backflip (rotation of body)
To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
Source: Wiktionary
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