Cretaceous
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Having the qualities of chalk;abounding with chalk; chalky; as,cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk. Cretaceous acid, an oldname for carbonic acid.-- Cretaceous formation (Geol.), the series of strata of variouskinds, including beds of chalk, green sand, etc., formed in theCretaceous period; -- called also the chalk formation. See theDiagram under Geology.-- Cretaceous period (Geol.), the time in the latter part of theMesozoic age during which the Cretaceous formation was deposited.
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that which is utterly ridiculous, exaggerated, or nonsensical.
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something or someone that is too cool for any other word; alternative to saying cool because it is over-used
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- An [ancient] [creature] or person which should have been long dead.
- A boring situation [which one] should have stopped persueing hours ago
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Relating to or denoting the last period of the Mesozoic era, between the Jurassic and Tertiary periods.
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