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great-wall
1. vi.,n. [from SF fandom] A mass expedition to an oriental restaurant, esp.
one where food is served family-style and shared. There is a common
heuristic about the amount of food to order, expressed as Get N - 1 entrees
; the value of N , which is the number of people in the group, can be
inferred from context (see N ). See oriental food , ravs , stir-fried
random. 2. Great firewall of China. A censorship system deployed by the
government of China mainly to prevent access to outside sources of news
or any type of information which may challenge the official doctrine.