Manuel Martinez, as he then was (Manolo Chopera is an untranslatable slang name everyone called him), had little enthusiasm for engineering and preferred to work with horses.

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So many Chinese expats have returned in the past few years that Valley-slang has given them a special name, B2C (back to China).

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Diddley's music drew from the sounds of the Chicago streets where he first performed, and his name came from street-corner slang.

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He is the leader of a gang of "droogs" - the name given to his friends in the book's language Nadsat - a mix of Russian and English slang.

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