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bog-standard

British  

adjective

  1. informal completely ordinary; run-of-the-mill

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“This is a bog-standard room, the worst in the building,” he says jokingly as we enter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The other is a bog-standard attack on her pro-worker advocacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

Her son said there had been a failure in "bog-standard policing".

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2023

A: Nobody smells their best at the gym, but my guess is that if the letter writer is cutting workouts short, this is several steps beyond bog-standard gym sweatiness.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2018

It's a truism of the Napsterverse that most of the files downloaded are bog-standard top-40 tracks, like 90 percent or so, and I believe it.

From Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books by Cory Doctorow

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