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.
SPOD
Etymology
Noun
spod (plural spods)
(Internet) One who uses talkers, an early form of chat room.
(colloquial) One who studies excessively and is disliked by fellow students because of it; a swot.
(colloquial) One who wastes time on nonproductive activities online.
(military) Sea Port of Debarkation.
(angling) A container used to distribute a large amount of bait in a single cast.
Synonyms
• (angling) bait rocket
Verb
spod (third-person singular simple present spods, present participle spodding, simple past and past participle spodded)
(angling) To fish using a spod.
Anagrams
• DPOs, PDOs, PODs, dops, pods
Noun
SPOD (plural SPODs)
(US, military) seaport of disembarkation
Anagrams
• DPOs, PDOs, PODs, dops, pods
Source: Wiktionary
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22 February 2025
ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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