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.
TETRIS
Etymology
Proper noun
Tetris
A puzzle video game in which falling tetrominoes must be manipulated to form complete lines, which are then cleared from the grid.
(figuratively) An endeavor involving rearranging things of different shape into a physical space.
Noun
Tetris (plural Tetrises)
(video games, by extension) The act of clearing four lines at once (the maximum possible) in Tetris.
Anagrams
• Sitter, Strite, sitter, streit, tirest, titers, titres, tretis, triest, triset, triste
Source: Wiktionary
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CRAZY
(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”
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