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sluss
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Swedish
Noun
sluss c
- (nautical) a lock (used for raising and lowering vessels in a canal or other waterway)
- (figuratively) a mechanism that lets someone/something through, a lock
- luftsluss
- airlock
- (figuratively) a floodgate (with a large figurative outpouring of something if opened)
- öppna slussarna
- open the floodgates
- (in the definite "slussen", normally capitalized) Slussen (area in central Stockholm)
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