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☆ pink slip

Informal notice to an employee of termination of employment

Etymology: from the sometime use of pink paper for the employee's carbon of the dismissal notice

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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