Definition: A Wallace-ism. Phalange suggests finger and the prefix hypo- seems to indicate fewer, less, below, &c. So perhaps less than the expected number of fingers?
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Definitive Jest is a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
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