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orphan-crushing machines

orphan-crushing machines is the plural of orphan-crushing machine.

Meaning of orphan-crushing machine

Noun

orphan-crushing machine (plural orphan-crushing machines)

  1. (Internet) A notional machine representing a system or state of affairs that obviously facilitates suffering but is not acknowledged or examined, or for which no alternative is considered.
    • "we live in a society", said the orphan-crushing machine operator2023 February 15, @lepetitereboot, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 17 May 2024

Questions about orphan-crushing machines

What is orphan-crushing machines the plural of?
Orphan-crushing machines is the plural of orphan-crushing machine.

Words near orphan-crushing machines in the dictionary

  1. orphan work
  2. orphan works
  3. orphan's court
  4. orphan's courts
  5. orphan-crushing machine
  6. orphan-crushing machines
  7. orphanage
  8. orphanages
  9. orphanarium
  10. orphanariums
  11. orphancy

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