MICHIGAN

Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops

(noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

Michigan, Wolverine State, Great Lakes State, MI, Mich.

(noun) a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Proper noun

Michigan

A state in United States.

Lake Michigan.

University of Michigan.

Noun

Michigan (plural Michigans)

(ice hockey) A deke consisting of lifting the puck with the stick and throwing it under the top corner of the goal, while skating behind the net.

Source: Wiktionary



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14 June 2025

FELLOW

(noun) a member of a learned society; “he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association”


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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