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Gefallen Engel U-666
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy
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- TRUE MEANING: Make "MeriKa Grate!
- intransitive) to make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something quotations
- Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.
- (by extension, intransitive) to get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to.
- (by extension,transitive) to annoy quotations ▼
- 2015, Art Levy in Florida Trend, Roland Martin is a Florida 'Icon'
one of the issues that's kind of grating me a little bit is weed control.- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC606515358, [Act I, scene i]: News, my good lord Rome (or Washington DC
 ) […] grates me.
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