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UUO (you-you-oh) [short for "Un-Used Operation"] n.
A DEC-10 system monitor call....
UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
VACANT Empty. Often descriptive of a house, flat, piece of land, mind, etc.
The vacancy of houses, flats and land is usually advertised on big signs outside, and in newspapers....
VACATION: A two-week binge of rest and relaxation so intense that it takes another 50 weeks of your restrained workaday life-style to recuperate.
Vacation for most of us means a couple of weeks with pay when we don't have to go to work, and during those two weeks, a couple of days when it does not rain.
Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. -- The Lio
Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today's world, it has become a necessity.
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellow men.
VACUUM-CLEANER Men have traditionally said of vacuum-cleaners "what's that?
New men know what vacuum-cleaners are, even if they've never touched them in the flesh....

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