LOCALS
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Scrabble
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WWF
L(1) O(1) C(3) A(1) L(1) S(1)
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Definition
noun
- A person who lives near a given place.“It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.”
- A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.“I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.”
- A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.“The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.”
- One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.“I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.”
- A locally scoped identifier.“Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.”
noun
- An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.
Source: Wiktionary
