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.
PASTICHE
pastiche
(noun) a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work
medley, potpourri, pastiche
(noun) a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pastiche (plural pastiches)
A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
(uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
Verb
pastiche (third-person singular simple present pastiches, present participle pastiching, simple past and past participle pastiched)
To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
Anagrams
• capeshit, hepatics, pistache, scaphite
Source: Wiktionary
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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