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n. - Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage.

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Usage examples (5)
  • I-right-I employs the same M.O. w/strikingly similiar rhetoric. any attempt to debate winds up mired in homo-erotic flaming.
  • Call me the Black-and-Blue Michigander, an especially endangered subspecies known as homo-autogargantus.
  • The most aggravated form of viraginity is that known as homo-sexuality; with this form, however, this paper has nothing to do.
  • I can track most of it - but where's the 'homo' part coming from?
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