actorvist

1. a Hollywood type with an aggressive, left-leaning agenda (actor + activist)

2. a celebrity activist

And "Good Night" is only one example of how Clooney is shedding his party boy persona and becoming more of an "actorvist."

(Newsweek, October 10, 2005 issue)

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regurgance

An unexpected and unwelcome reappearance of somebody or something in different form or shape.

The stock junkie came back to pump the stock under a different alias. The pumper's regurgance was greeted by almost universal disgust.

subrural

The residential area on the outskirts of suburbia.

A thick dawn mist ensnares a subrural New Jersey ranch home and stretches across the several acres it occupies.

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AWOL

Acronym for "A Waste Of Life".

Jonathan's nickname is AWOL, 'cause all he does all day is turn radio dials.

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fraudware

Computer software designed for “'click fraud'—bogus clicks that do not come from genuinely interested customers," to abuse the 'pay-per-click' model of Internet advertising, "the single largest category within this flourishing industry, accounting for nearly half of all spending". (Nov 23rd 2006 The Economist)

Dick signed on with a company specializing in fraudware, used to increase the number of hits to all advertising banners on his Web site, which ranged in price from $0.10 to as much as $30.

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