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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun trademark a commerical antacid; -- the tablets dissolve in water to give an effervescent solution.

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  • noun a commercial antacid that contains aspirin; tablets dissolve in water to give an effervescent solution

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Examples

  • They have a lot to answer for, but she will wink, and he will blink, and I will take an alka-seltzer.

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  • Not that I don't hold with sentimentality: I collect useful and useless things with little discrimination, I litter my apartment with novels I've already read and choke my purses with beach glass, marbles, and Russian alka-seltzer.

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  • It's time not to listen to what our gut says, it's time to give it some alka-seltzer and get it to shut up so we can think.

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  • It's time not to listen to what our gut says, it's time to give it some alka-seltzer and get it to shut up so we can think.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • It's time not to listen to what our gut says, it's time to give it some alka-seltzer and get it to shut up so we can think.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • It's time not to listen to what our gut says, it's time to give it some alka-seltzer and get it to shut up so we can think.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • It's time not to listen to what our gut says, it's time to give it some alka-seltzer and get it to shut up so we can think.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • I took a breakfast combo of alka-seltzer and very strong coffee.

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  • I took a breakfast combo of alka-seltzer and very strong coffee.

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  • The Bellucci-Cassano partnership is fizzier than an alka-seltzer in a bottle of Newcastl ...

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