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- noun Plural form of
lude .
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Examples
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But here is another, central reason: what I call “ludicity,” or the “ludic fallacy” from the Latin ludes, meaning “games”.
Freakonomics Quorum: The Economics of Street Charity - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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But here is another, central reason: what I call “ludicity,” or the “ludic fallacy” from the Latin ludes, meaning “games”.
Freakonomics Quorum: The Economics of Street Charity - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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He plays on the double meaning of "ludes," which means either "tricks," or "funeral games" in honor of the dead, according to the context.]
The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847
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I suggest you lay of the meth and switch to ludes.
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Can't speak a word when you're wife's full of 'ludes
Mac Is Back, With a Smaller Crowd Than Bush - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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Light up or pop any old ludes in your grandparent's cabinet.
Archive 2010-02-01 mrdantefontana 2010
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The novel showed rich, bored Californians as shallow as pie-plates watching MTV, snorting coke, getting tans, flipping through GQ, popping 'ludes, lying around pools and toying with their food in expensive restaurants.
Zero Progress 2010
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Light up or pop any old ludes in your grandparent's cabinet.
Bloodrock: D.O.A. Donna Lethal 2010
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The plan, as laid out by Democratic strategists, inc ludes two big elements: renewed attention by candidates on hometown construction projects often without mentioning the unpopular economic stimulus bill that provided the funding and a ramped-up effort at national Democratic headquarters to find negative information about GOP candidates.
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He was busted for plying a little girl with booze and ludes and raping her.
Polanski Skates Steve Perry 2010
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