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  *杠* | 杠* | *杠
coffin-bearing pole (old) / thick pole; bar; rod / thick line / to mark with a thick line / to sharpen (a knife, razor etc) / to get into a dispute with / standard; criterion / hyphen; dash
lever / pry bar / crowbar / financial leverage
parallel bars (gymnastics event)
to bicker / to argue for the sake of arguing / to carry on poles (together with sb else) / to carry a coffin on poles
bar / bold line / horizontal bar (gymnastics event)
thick bar / solid carrying pole
extortion by taking advantage of sb's weakness
uneven bars (gymnastics)
crowbar
pole carrier / coffin-bearer
slash; forward slash (punctuation mark) / (neologism c. 2016) (coll.) (attributive) pursuing multiple career paths concurrently; having a portfolio career; (of a career, identity etc) multi-path; multi-hyphenate; slashie
car bumper
young person who pursues multiple careers simultaneously; a young slashie
financial leverage / leveraging (i.e. buying shares on borrowed funds)
(old) chief coffin bearer / (fig.) argumentative person / a kind of bread made with a dough flattened using a rolling pin 槓子|杠子
bar / horizontal bar
(slang, originally northeast dialect) excellent; great
trapeze (gymnastics)
to get into a dispute with
to sharpen a knife (or razor etc)
to cross out
to shake / to rock
(Tw) to lose one's shirt (gambling); to meet with failure (from Taiwanese 摃龜, Tai-lo pr. [kòng-ku])
(finance) leverage / gearing
deleveraging (i.e. paying off part of a leverage loan)


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