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albatross

A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.
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Additional definitions for 'albatross':

albatrossA double eagle, or three under par on any one hole.
albatrossAny of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
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