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A Shortage Of Old Fashioned Woe

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interjection

• An expression of sorrow or mourning.

29%4Old-fashioned term for an old man
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23%6 An old team with a gas shortage
noun

• severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues

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