Pronunciations
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/ˈfeɪsˌbʊk/
Noun
A reference book or electronic directory containing the photographs and names of various individuals.
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He had gotten the call from the casino-a client who had recognized them from the facebook-and had flown down to the Bahamas to teach them a lesson.
A college publication distributed at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students become acquainted with each other.
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The shipment of facebooks will be distributed to the freshmen during orientation and move-in-week.
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In the last month, since he’d embarked on projects like digitally scanning Melissa Paquette’s face from a freshman facebook and suturing her head to obscene downloaded images and tinkering with these images pixel by pixel (and the hours did fly by when you were tinkering with pixels), he’d read no books at all.
Kevin was surprised to see his own face on the card. It was an authentic California ID under the name Oliver Chen. "Where'd you get the picture?" Kevin asked. "Your MIT facebook."
There is no interests section in the facebook. You know why? No one wants to flip through a book to find out which girls play chess.