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nothingburger n (originally and chiefly US, informal)

An unimportant person; a nobody, a nonentity. Something of less importance than its treatment suggests; also, something which is bland or unremarkable in appearance or impact. nothingburger adj (originally and chiefly US, informal) Of less importance than its treatment suggests; insignificant, unimportant; also, bland or unremarkable in appearance or impact. The American gossip columnist Louella Parsons, who apparently coined the word, was born on this day in 1881.

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lakh numeral (South Asia, Myanmar)

One hundred thousand (100,000; or, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,000). lakh n (South Asia) One hundred thousand rupees. (figurative) Often in the plural: an indefinitely large number; a zillion. Today is India’s Independence Day, which commemorates the date when it ceased to be part of the British Empire in 1947.

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