Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Salute
Salute verb - To declare enthusiastic approval of.
Both words in one sentence
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Though, according to Oda, the latter is an actual sailor salute used to avoid showing tar-stained hands to your superiors.
Source: Strange Salute - In the UK, the cover for Left 4 Dead 2 had the hand reversed, to avoid the two fingered salute
Source: Bowdlerise / Video Games -
He does not manage to avoid this when honoring the late Chexmix, as seen when he wipes his eyes during the salute.
Source: Creator / Ray Narvaez, Jr.
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