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 PARSE [from linguistic terminology] v. 1. To determine the syntactic
       structure of a sentence or other utterance (close to the standard
       English meaning). Example: "That was the one I saw you."
       "I can't parse that." 2. More generally, to understand or
       comprehend. "It's very simple; you just kretch the glims and then
       aos the zotz." "I can't parse that." 3. Of fish, to
       have to remove the bones yourself (usually at a Chinese restaurant).
       "I object to parsing fish" means "I don't want to get a
       whole fish, but a sliced one is okay." A "parsed fish"
       has been deboned. There is some controversy over whether
       "unparsed" should mean "bony", or also mean
       "deboned".