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  • strong heart: have a strong heart
    [cf. W Car. have heart idem; also Sra. trangati (lit. strong heart) inexorability WST, Cam. trɔŋg-hɛt impudent (Hancock 1969:45); cf. Haitian
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  • strong back
    [DJE various sp.; OED 1738 → ; from its medicinal use in strengthening the BACK] n. a tree, Bourreria ovata:
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  • strive: make strive
    [from make strides to progress + strive to endeavor] phr. to make progress by striving: The government is making tremendous strive towards this
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  • strive
    [DJE idem; from thrive via trive and hypercorrection of initial consonant cluster] v. to thrive: The Bahamas has gone from colonialism to
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  • strip-me-naked
    [OED, gin; from resulting poverty] n. a card game resembling strip poker: I don't like to play strip-me-naked with nobody, 'cause
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  • strip
    v. [OED, to deprive a plant of its foliage] to cut the useful parts off a palm frond for plaiting: I
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  • strip
    n. [DAS, district around the main street] neighborhood: 1974 (King 26).
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  • stringy briar
    [OED stringy resembling string] n. briar vines: 1918 Stringy briar hook um on de foot (Parsons 86). (Inagua, San Sal.)
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  • string
    [cf. Cayman, a thin piece of thatch leaf used for tying (Fuller 68); OED fibre or vein from a leaf] n.
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  • strimps
    (Atlantic; cf. swimps in DJE, Gul. (Writers' Project 1940:101); US Black s'rimps (Benardete 1932:352)] n. sing. or pl. shrimp. (Gen.) Also
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