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lapfog_1

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3. decimated

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Apr 22, 2026, 09:56 PM

9 hrs ago

doesn't mean what she thinks it means...

Origin: The term derives from the Latin decimatio ("the removal or destruction of one-tenth&quot .

decimated means to reduce by 10 percent.

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