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- | '''Wi-ki'''
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- | 1) ''adj. [[Slang]]''
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- | Extremely good, excellent: "That [[Manfred Mann]] song is wiki, bruv!".
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- | 2) ''adv. [[Slang]]''
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- | Used as an intensive: "My [[pedometer]] is wiki accurate".
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- | Commonly used multiple times for added effect: "Wiki wiki Wild Wild West".
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- | == [[Etymology]] ==
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- | First use of the word wiki is accredited to talented actor, singer and one half of [[Smith and Jones]], [[Will Smith]] in his Oscar winning 1999 satirical film and song combination '[[Wild Wild West]]'.
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- | In the early part of the 21st century street youths, tired and unhappy with the effort required to pronounce the two syllables of the word wiki, replaced the spoken word with a simple hand signal (demonstrated below by Paul Merton). This hand signal overcame the complications of speech and the rest is history. Word.
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Current revision as of 00:49, 25 August 2009
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