What does hamster-wheel mean?

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hamster-wheel

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

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hamster-wheels (present, singular) hamster-wheeling (participle, present) hamster-wheeled (participle, past) hamster-wheeled (past)

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