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[US] Pennsylvania Packet 6 Mar. 2/3: By a wag correspondent from Spanish town [Jamaica], we are informed, that a military buck [...] declared that he would make an attack behind the scenes of the theatre, and there kick up, what he polite[l]y called a bobbery, (some new military term for a riot).
at kick up a bobbery (v.) under bobbery, n.
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