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- initialism computing Physical unit of information transfer
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Examples
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So changed, indeed, became the old cat that he did not possess spirit enough to put up his tail and "phit" and "fiz" at Burgher Jans 'terrier, when that predatory animal made an occasional excursion into the parlour at meal times, to see what he could pick up, either on the sly or in that sneaking, fawning fashion which a well-trained dog would have despised.
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Every now and then with the clear high "phit" of the Mauser bullet would come the hideous twisting whistle of the Martini -- really a horrible sound.
The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Filson Young 1907
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One day, however, as I was about to part the branches to look in, I heard an anxious "phit," and glanced up to see the owner alight on the lowest limb of a peach-tree near by.
A Bird-Lover in the West Olive Thorne Miller 1874
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She always alighted on the peach-tree branch, looked about on all sides, especially at me in my seat on the piazza, flirted her tail, uttered an anxious "phit," and then jumped off the limb and dived under the bushes near the ground.
A Bird-Lover in the West Olive Thorne Miller 1874
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Ai gotz a Wii phit last wiik an my kittehs lyk too set awn teh bord too!
Forgets Wii - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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MissCegenation of Reciprocal Crap Exchange sent in a link to The Perfect Phit, a NYC spa dedicated to “pelvic health” phit = “pelvic health integrated techniques”.
PELVIC FITNESS SPA: MORE THINGS FOR WOMEN TO WORRY ABOUT » Sociological Images 2008
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Keap triing 2 phit dis skware pegg in2 de rund hol.
Ahm bizzy sleepn. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Before the last knot of the bundle was untied by the mite's busy fingers there crawled out a tiny tortoise-shell kitten, with its diminutive little tail erect like a young bottle-brush, which gave vent to a "phiz - phit," as if indignant at its long confinement, and then proceeded to rub itself against Jupp's leg, with a purring mew on recognising a friend.
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` Whiz! 'went the matchlock balls of the Arabs past our ears; ` whir-r-ir' sliced away their scimitars right and left in the air, with the regularity of so many flails at work on a barn-floor; but we did not mind them a bit, for the ` phit -- phit -- phit! 'of the bullets from our
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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My old friend Time, however, worked his proverbial wonders and one day a telephone came -- phit! like that.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21 Various
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