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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ7042791
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No-no, No-No or no-no may refer to:

No-hitter, also called a no-no, a baseball game in which a team was not able to record a single hit

Elastic No-No Band, a musical group based in New York City's anti-folk scene, active from 2004–2011

No-No's (Leftovers and Live Songs), is the second official CD release by the antifolk group Elastic No-No Band

The Very Best of Elastic No-No Band So Far, the first official CD release of the antifolk group Elastic No-No Band

Judy's Little No-No, a 1969 crime film about a go-go dancer who is targeted by gangsters after coming into possession of a priceless jewel

No-No Boy (play), a play written by Ken Narasaki adapted from the novel of the same title by John Okada

No-No Boy, a novel by John Okada about a Japanese-American set in 1946 in Seattle, Washington

Noo-Noo, a character in the television series Teletubbies

No-no, a baby talk phrase used when talking to a young child, meaning something bad, dangerous, unhealthy, inappropriate or rude; i.e.

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The public source identifies “No-no” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around No-no, Wikimedia and disambiguation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2011, 1969, 1946—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with No-no, Wikimedia and disambiguation providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7042791. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2011, 1969 and 1946.

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This entry incorporates text from No-no” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.