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焼き鳥 やきとり

  1. chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer; yakitori
  2. grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow)
  3. failing to win a single hand during a half-game

焼き鳥屋 やきとりや

  1. yakitori restaurant

垂れ たれ

  1. sauce (esp. soy or mirin-based dipping sauce)
  2. hanging; something hanging (flap, lappet, etc.)
  3. (kendo) loin guard
  4. kanji radical enclosing the top-left corner of a character
  5. woman
  6. -ass; -head
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