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To: Red Badger

Read the second paragraph.


9 posted on 01/18/2024 6:13:15 PM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Right Brother

It’s British. Maybe they have a different meaning for that word...................


12 posted on 01/18/2024 6:15:03 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Right Brother

Yep, I looked it up, the informal British use is: To prevent something from happening.................


15 posted on 01/18/2024 6:18:14 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Right Brother

ORIGIN OF SCUPPER

First recorded in 1880–85; originally British military slang “to massacre, slaughter”; further origin uncertain


17 posted on 01/18/2024 6:20:57 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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