Guide and Throwaway

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Guide noun - One that accompanies another for protection, guidance, or as a courtesy.

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Throwaway and guide are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Throwaway" instead a noun "Guide".

Nearby Words: guidance, guided, guideline, guiding

Throwaway noun - An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution.

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Guide and throwaway are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Guide" instead a noun "Throwaway".

In comic 7, there's a throwaway joke when Black Mage is reading a strategy guide.

Source: Webcomic / 8-Bit Theater
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a throwaway gag about a knife that toasts bread while slicing it.

Source: Hot Blade
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (the books, radio show, towel...), Douglas Adams makes one or two throwaway references to "super-intelligent shades of the colour blue".

Source: Energy Beings

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