What is Ostalgie?
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(n.) (Ger) (also 'Ostalgia')
Nostalgia for life in former East Germany; portmanteau of Ost (east) and Nostalgie (nostalgia)
Also applicable to nostalgia for former socialist life in other Eastern European nations.
Arguably more common than 'Yugo-nostalgia'
The life recreated in Good Bye Lenin! is, in part, representative of Ostalgie.
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A general term to describe any object.
I keep tripping over that little hoochie-gow over there.
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act of standing against a wall to cause the effect of invisibility.
Hey wheres billy. oh there he is, he must have been on the niner...