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[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘Mill is awfully barred in Seymour’s [...] Anybody might have ragged his study’.
at bar, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘If [a group of vigilantes] got their knife into any one, he usually got beans’.
at get beans (v.) under beans, n.2
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘Rummy old crib, this’.
at crib, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘Can you keep a thing dark?’.
at dark it (v.) under dark, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘What the deuce was he doing that for?’.
at deuce, the, phr.
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] Finally, on the suggestion of Otway, who had reduced tossing to a fine art, a mystic game of Tommy Dodd was played.
at tommy dodd, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘[O'ne doesn’t expect a man in the Wrykyn first [fifteen] to funk’.
at funk, v.2
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘This,’ said Harvey, [...] ‘is something like. I’m jolly glad we’re in it’.
at in it, adj.
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘It’s no good your jumping on me [...] I’ve done nothing’.
at jump on, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] [H]e was ‘a toughish lot’, who was ‘little, but steel and india-rubber’.
at lot, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘[W]hen we did let [the ball] out, the outsides nearly always mucked it’.
at muck, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘Biscuits are off. I finished ’em yesterday’.
at off, adv.1
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘If it had been a decent-sized rabbit, I should have plugged it middle stump’.
at plug, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘Mill is awfully barred in Seymour’s [...] Anybody might have ragged his study’.
at rag, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] [H]e even resorted to crude methods like the throwing of paper balls and the dropping of books. And when your really scientific ragger sinks to this, he is nearing the end of his tether.
at ragger (n.) under rag, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘Scratch the cake. I ate it before the match’.
at scratch, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘Gave me six, the cad [...] just because I had a look at his beastly study’.
at six, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘Look here, O’Hara, you won’t split, will you?’ ‘I’m not an informer by profession, thanks,’ said O’Hara.
at split, v.
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] This meant that the culprit must be ‘touched up’ before the house assembled in the dining-room.
at touch up, v.1
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘He’s a beast [...] I can’t understand why they let a tout like that be the school doctor’.
at tout, n.1
[UK] Wodehouse Gold Bat [ebook] ‘[He] went straight to the Old Man, and Patterson got turfed out on the spot’.
at turf out (v.) under turf, v.
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