An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DOGPILE
Etymology
Noun
dogpile (plural dogpiles)
(US colloquial) A disorderly pile of people formed by jumping upon a victim.
(figurative, US colloquial) Any similarly disorderly pile of people or things.
(US colloquial, euphemism) A pile of dogshit.
Synonyms
• (a pile of people): pig pile (upon a single victim, colloq.); scrum, ruck (esp. rugby); stacks on the mill, stacks on (esp. Australian football); pile-up (esp. US football)
• (a pile of dogshit): See dogshit
Verb
dogpile (third-person singular simple present dogpiles, present participle dogpiling, simple past and past participle dogpiled)
(US colloquial, ambitransitive, often with 'on') To jump into a dogpile.
(figurative, US, colloquial, ambitransitive) To pile on, to overwhelm in other senses.
Synonyms
• (to form a dogpile): pile up; pig pile (colloq.); bundle (slang)
Source: Wiktionary
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AIR
(noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; “an air of mystery”; “the house had a neglected air”; “an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate’s headquarters”; “the place had an aura of romance”
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