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Hair ball   Listen
noun
hair ball, hairball  n.  A compact mass of hair that forms in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur; as, the cat coughed up a hairball right on the new rug.





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"Hair ball" Quotes from Famous Books



... A large batch of messages that a store-and-forward network is failing to forward when it should. Often used in the phrase "Fido coughed up a hairball today", meaning that the stuck messages have just come unstuck, producing a flood of mail where there had ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0


Words linked to "Hair ball" :   trichobezoar


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