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jhbadger
15 days ago
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HPV vaccine cuts risk of dying from cervical cance...
Maybe, but it's a bit weird to complain about connotations for "jab" when the US word is "shot" which surely has even more violent connotations,
dfc
14 days ago
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A
shot
of tequila? Or my team having a
shot
at winning world series? There are lots of shots.
verall
14 days ago
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Don't brits use the same way, i.e. "Take a jab at it"?
- not a brit so idk
smelendez
14 days ago
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Interestingly Greene’s Dictionary of Slang cites more than a century of US use of “jab” for injection. Seems like it must have died out in the US and revived a bit lately.
https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/i66n7hi
globular-toast
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