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.
HALFBEAK
halfbeak
(noun) tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
halfbeak (plural halfbeaks)
(zoology) Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoo or ballyhoos.
Source: Wiktionary
Half"beak`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any slender, marine fish of the genus Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; -- called also balahoo.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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