n.
1.a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape
2.a lake in north central Africa
3.a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa
4.a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
Idiom of the Day
wash one's hands of (someone or something)
to abandon someone or something, to refuse responsibility for someone or something
The manager washed his hands of the problem after the others refused to deal with it.