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Prince Charles Is a Drink Driver …

… titles The Sun. But be careful to read correctly, “drink” and not “drunk“. And it’s explained as follows:

The classic gas-guzzler, a DB6 Volante given to the Prince by the Queen to mark his 21st birthday in 1970, has been overhauled to make it more environmentally-friendly.
It now runs on bioethanol extracted from local vineyards’ surplus plonk – at a cost of £1.10 per litre.

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metabolomics

the science of (the) metabolism (of cells)

seen in: The Economist

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Streisand effect

self-defeating behaviour or unintended consequences of drawing attention to some unwanted material on the internet by suing

seen in The Economist

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baracktogenarian

an Obama supporter over the age of twenty

seen in Slate Magazine’s Encyclopedia Baracktannica

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