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Square Brackets 

The thing that links words within the square brackets
Woah he used square brackets

square brackets 

a key on the keyboard that the Urban Dictionary HATES
In the boxes below, link to other words with square brackets. For example, booty will become booty.

All square brackets 

When you type every word in square brackets
Person: "Everything I'm typing is in All square brackets, even the comma and colon and period and quotations."

The thing that links words within the square brackets 

The thing that links words within the square brackets is used to lead you into a different definition and stuff

square bracket 

ASCII 91 and 93 (and hence U+005B and U+005D). Used in matching pairs to denote stage directions in a play or additions to a quotation. In programming languages with C-like syntax, square brackets typically enclose array subscripts. In mathematics, their most frequent use is to denote closed intervals of real numbers. On Urban Dictionary, because they're used for markup and there are no escape sequences, opening square brackets can never appear in the text of a definition.
The standard QWERTY keyboard makes square brackets easier to type than parentheses, which is pretty silly considering how much more common parentheses are.
square bracket by Subsequence February 16, 2010
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Throat Sweats 

The feeling and build up in your mouth/throat of saliva that sometimes accompanies nausea.
Oh man those burritos gave me the throat sweats, I hope I don’t have food poisoning.
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piddlefart

Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
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anyone who succeeds in disgracing/over indulging themselves in the throws of clubland
28 hours and 4 clubs later, gurning for england but still refusing to go home - a total wrongun!!
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