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takoyaki; octopus dumplings

3

eating quickly; speed-eating

6

each (person); everyone; individual; respective

1

purchase; buy

2

ready, go!; race

2

standard item; usual thing; (a) classic; basic item (with stable demand); staple goods

3

octopus

1

in name only; titular; nominal

1

wheat flour

1

ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet

1

false; pseudo-; quasi-; would-be; sham; pretended

1

pressure; force

1

water; (drinking) water; night entertainment business; nightlife worker; racy; titillating

4

piping hot; scalding; madly in love; passionately in love

1

swallowing whole; swallowing without chewing; taking something in without fully understanding it; accepting without reservation; accepting something as-is

1

suicidal act; self-destroying action; suicidal action

1

pre-made (esp. food); prepared in advance

1

knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes

3

next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour

2

shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup); Italian ice; snow cone; sno-cone

3

unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected

3

lady; ready

1

roaringly; rumblingly

1

temperature; body temperature (human, animal)

1

to dissolve; to melt

1

syrup

1

large serving; large portion

3

to mix; to stir; to blend

2

to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve

1

to be too late; to be too slow

2

frontal attack

1

premature; untimely (e.g. death); early

1

festival game in which participants try to catch goldfish in a shallow paper ladle

2

(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown

5

bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely

3

horse's length

3

in an instant; instantly; in a moment; instantaneously; in the twinkling of an eye

2

dispensable chopsticks; throwaway chopsticks

2

to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat

1

anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside

7

newly arrived; newly joined; newly entered; newcomer

1

to suck; to lick

1

way of eating; how to eat

1

throughout Japan

1

it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?

1

end; close; finish; termination

1

gelidium jelly strips (made from agar-agar); prostate orgasm

1

nose

7

pump

1

development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life

2