stop-gap — ozdic

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noun

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Alternative form of stopgap.

[A] bit of ink and paper which has long been an innocent wrapping or stop-gap may at last be laid open under the one pair of eyes which have knowledge enough to turn it into the opening of a catastrophe.

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Alternative form of stopgap.

verb

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Alternative form of stopgap.

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[A] bit of ink and paper which has long been an innocent wrapping or stop-gap may at last be laid open under the one pair of eyes which have knowledge enough to turn it into the opening of a catastrop

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