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fair dinkum
adjective [after verb], adverb, exclamation /ˌfeəˈdɪŋ.kəm/
/ˌfer-/ Australian English informalDefinition
(Definition of fair dinkum adjectiveadverbexclamation from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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