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   used-car
         n 1: a car that has been previously owned; not a new car [syn:
               {used-car}, {secondhand car}]

English Dictionary: UCITS' by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
used-car lot
n
  1. a parking lot where a dealer in used-cars displays cars for sale
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Use the Source Luke
  
      (UTSL) (A pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use
      the Force, Luke!" in "Star Wars") A more polite version of
      {RTFS}.   This is a common way of suggesting that someone would
      be better off reading the source code that supports whatever
      feature is causing confusion, rather than making yet another
      futile pass through the manuals, or broadcasting questions on
      {Usenet} that haven't attracted {wizard}s to answer them.
  
      Once upon a time in {Elder Days}, everyone running {Unix} had
      source.   After 1978, {AT&T}'s policy tightened up, so this
      objurgation was in theory appropriately directed only at
      associates of some outfit with a Unix {source licence}.   In
      practice, bootlegs of Unix source code (made precisely for
      reference purposes) were so ubiquitous that one could utter it
      at almost anyone on {the network} without concern.
  
      Nowadays, free Unix clones are becoming common enough that
      almost anyone can read source legally.   The most widely
      distributed is probably {Linux}.   {FreeBSD}, {NetBSD},
      {386BSD}, {jolix} also have their followers.   Cheap commercial
      Unix implementations with source such as {BSD/OS} from {BSDI}
      are accelerating this trend.
  
      (1996-01-02)
  
  
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