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salad days:
salmagundi: a mixture or assortment; also, a kind of mixed dish or salad.
shiftless: a style of writing that uses only lower-case letters. [Example] Cummings wrote many of his poems in the shiftless style, using no upper-case letters at all.
snow job: An effort to deceive, overwhelm, or persuade with insincere talk, especially flattery. [Example] The entire presentation was a complete snow job.
sobriquet:
spoliation: 1. The act of pillaging and plundering. 2. Seizure of neutral ships at sea in time of war. 3. The deliberate destruction or alteration of a document.
spurious: not genuine; false; illegitimate.
sticky wicket: A difficult, awkward or uncertain situation.
stolid: unexcitable; unemotional.
stripling: an adolescent youth.
succedaneum: A substitute.
superfluous: more than is wanted or is sufficient.
sutler:
swipeout: When you've maxed out all your credit cards. [Example] I can't buy that dress. I've hit a swipeout.
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