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[Aus] Hawkesbury Chron. (Windsor, NSW) 24 Sept. 2/4: No fun at the Court House on Tuesday; all was decorum, and a dead suck-in for the expectant ones.
at suck-in, n.
[Aus] Hawkesbury Chron. (Windsor, NSW) 15 Sept. 4/1: So thoroughly they skinned him out, / No coin was left wherewith to shout / For alcohol!
at skin, v.1
[Aus] Hawkesbury Chron. (Windsor, NSW) 15 Sept. 4/1: A youth who seemed to little reck, / So long as he could smash his cheque / for alcohol.
at smash, v.1
[Aus] Hawkesbury Chron. (Windsor, NSW) 14 Jan. 2/5: A thinking Socialist or Freethinker [...] would most likely say that most of the professional Bible-wallopers that have been imported to this country are all arrant humbugs.
at bible-walloper (n.) under bible, n.
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