American staffordshire terrier
one of an American breed of strong, muscular terriers, originally developed in England, with a short, close-lying, stiff coat of any color or combination of colors except solid white.
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. a revision of the Bible, based chiefly on the Revised Version of the Bible, published in the U.S. in 1901. noun a revised version of the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible, published by a committee of American scholars in 1901
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2 . a starlike charge having five points unless a greater number is specified, used especially as the cadency mark of a third son. noun any of various teleost food fishes belonging to the families Mugilidae (grey mullet) or Mullidae (red mullet) See also grey mullet, red mullet the US name for grey mullet noun […]
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a service in which the ball is spun so as to bounce high and to the left of the receiver.