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In the anime "Fairy Tail", I came across the line 「ってか お色気代 １０００ジュエル パーだわ これ」
which the translator subtitled as "By the way, I spent the 1000 jewels I saved
by using my sexual appeal for this..." I was wondering what パー means here,
since I've never seen it by itself before and I can't seem to find it
anywhere.
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What does パー mean by itself?
Here, パー means "completely gone" or "entirely wasted", often with the nuance
that the thing that is completely gone is something that you worked hard to
get. [デジタル大辞泉 offers the following
definition](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/jn2/172848/m0u/%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC/):

> ２ 持っていた金品がすっかりなくなること。それまで苦労したことが全くむだになること。また、そのさま。

There is also a definition in EDICT, but you have to search for ぱあ or パア in
order for it to show up, which is probably why you couldn't find it:

> ぱあ (n,adj-na) (2) disappearing completely

I have mostly seen this used as 何々が **パーだ** or 何々が **パーになる**. EDICT seems to
indicate that it can be used as a な-adjective, but I have never seen it used
that way.
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