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Clippie
- unknown - A female conductor on a pre-war bus. She clipped a hole in the paper tickets before issuing them to passengers.
Cloacae
- noun - (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open
- a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
Clootie
- - 1. Scottish dumpling
2. Scots word for devil
- A little hoof.
Closure
- noun - a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
- a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
- approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap; "the ship's rapid rate of closing gave them little time to avoid a collision"
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
- terminate debate by calling for a vote; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion"
- termination of operations; "they regretted the closure of the day care center"
- the act of blocking
Cloture
- noun - a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
- terminate debate by calling for a vote; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion"
Cocagne
- - An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.