Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
PACHUCO
pachuco
(noun) a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pachuco (countable and uncountable, plural pachucos)
(US, countable) A Mexican-American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area.
(uncountable) An argot spoken by that group, sometimes known as calĂł.
Anagrams
• capouch, coach up
Source: Wiktionary
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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