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/ˈplaɪə/ · noun
(geology, US) A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely..
Beyond the valley below lay a playa, a vast dried-white lake bed, its ends reaching farther than they could see.
“We are also deploying buses to Gerlach to take people to Reno who might walk off the playa. See our recommendations on when walking is viable or not. This is not likely a 24-hour operation at this time.”
What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.
In the end, all the things Grace claimed to like about Marlon—that he was not a ‘playa’, that he was gentle and awkward and not interested in money—were all the reasons she left him.
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Playa means (geology, US) A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely..
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Beyond the valley below lay a playa, a vast dried-white lake bed, its ends reaching farther than they could see.
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