This week the Alternative Dictionary mixes some reader contributions with classics from the inspirational BBC Radio show I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue ...

Abu Dhabi Week readers:
Bulletin (n): gunshot wound (Marcelino Badanoy)
Deranged (adj): having undone someone’s organisation (Charlie Kennedy)
Eraser (n): online shaving tool (Lakme Nair)
Express (n): former head of state (Marcelino Badanoy)
Remote (v); put water around a distant castle (Bryan Davis)
Report (v): to refurbish a harbour (Reuben Moraes)
Skin (n): his family (Lakme Nair)
Summer (n): gadget used in maths (Marcelino Badanoy)

Radio favourites:
Decease (v): to stop stopping
Economist (n): discount fog
Leotard (n): very dim-witted lion
Luggage (adj): how old your ears are
Ovaltine (n): overweight adolescent
Problematic (n): faulty washing machine
Sewage (n): Legal work
Timbre (excl): the cry of a French lumberjack as a tree falls

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