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(n): a Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph

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4 months ago sionnach said:

BANZAI : Japanese war-cry, 1893, literally "(may you live) ten thousand years," originally a greeting addressed to the emperor, from ban "ten thousand" + sai "year."

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