Yugoslavia
Proper noun
Meaning
(historical) The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a rump state formed by Serbia and Montenegro after 1992.
(historical, nonstandard, by extension) Serbia and Montenegro, after 2003 until 2006, when it disintegrated.
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia.
So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
In the Middle East, Iraq, Sudan, the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world, religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.
I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.
If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.