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Rip Van Winkle
Definition
(Noun) A person who has been "asleep" or out-of-it for a very long time. (From a fictional Washington Irving character who, after drinking drugged liquor or liquor with a magic potion, falls asleep for 20 years - and obviously awakens to a much-changed world.)
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