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Re:The "Tourist" Investors Flooding Silicon Valley With Mone... by DevX101 on Saturday February 06, 2016 @12:19PM (#11048605)
The Wire
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Re:The "Tourist" Investors Flooding Silicon Valley With Mone... by ghaff on Saturday February 06, 2016 @02:06PM (#11049185)
I actually wasn't aware of it being either street slang or associated with The Wire. It seemed a pretty familiar term to me. A few different online sources suggest it started out as military slang to mean "re-enlist."
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Re:The "Tourist" Investors Flooding Silicon Valley With Mone... by greenyoda on Saturday February 06, 2016 @04:47PM (#11050087)
And the military usage goes back to the early 1900s:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/re-up

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Re:The "Tourist" Investors Flooding Silicon Valley With Mone... by hackaflocka on Saturday February 06, 2016 @12:27PM (#11048652)
Ah -- that would explain it. I never watched that show myself.
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Re:The "Tourist" Investors Flooding Silicon Valley With Mone... by sremani on Saturday February 06, 2016 @12:37PM (#11048725)
most def
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