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[US] Wash. Post and Times Herald 24 July F17: Anyone suffering from art-gallery gout, Delhi belly, jaded eyeballs or other ills of the traveler on the high road, is hereby advised to relax while suffering. Help is on the way.
at Delhi belly, n.
[US] Wash. Post and Times Herald 1 Aug. D8/1: The rather lavish production offers the little French ‘sex kitten’ such starry support as Charles Boyer.
at sex kitten (n.) under sex, n.
[US] Wash. Post and Times Herald 10 Apr. L6: The disorder occurs often in Mexico and has been nicknamed Montzuma’s revenge [...] In Italy, Turkey, Egypt and India it is named Turkey trot, gippy tummy, and Delhi belly.
at Delhi belly, n.
[US] Wash. Post and Times Herald 24 Jan. AW8: You ask, ‘Wasn’t there anything you didn’t like?’ and they admit that, like most Americans, they suffered a three-day gastric upset described by a variety of names, names like the Gringo Gallop and Montezuma’s Revenge.
at gringo gallop, n.
[US] Wash. Post and Times Herald 10 Apr. L6: The disorder occurs often in Mexico and has been nicknamed Montzuma’s revenge [...] In Italy, Turkey, Egypt and India it is named Turkey trot, gippy tummy, and Delhi belly.
at gyppy tummy, n.
[US] Wash. Post and Times Herald 10 Apr. L6: The disorder occurs often in Mexico and has been nicknamed Montezuma’s revenge, turista, and ‘the trots.’ In Italy, Turkey, Egypt and India it is named Turkey trot, gippy tummy, and Delhi belly.
at Montezuma’s revenge, n.
[US] Wash. Post and Times Herald 10 Apr. L6: The disorder occurs often in Mexico and has been nicknamed Montezuma’s revenge, turista, and ‘the trots.’.
at touristas, n.
[US] Wash. Post and Times Herald 10 Apr. L6: The disorder occurs often in Mexico and has been nicknamed Montezuma’s revenge [...] In Italy, Turkey, Egypt and India it is named Turkey trot, gippy tummy, and Delhi belly.
at Turkey trot, n.
[US] Wash. Post and Times Herald 10 Apr. L6: The disorder occurs often in Mexico and has been nicknamed Montezuma’s revenge, turista, and ‘the trots.’.
at trots, n.
[US] Wash. Post and Times Herald 13 Apr. A1: ‘Wow, this is Easy Street in a fat city,’ said a white Peking duckling, lying back Maharajah-style.
at fat city, n.1
[US] Wash. Post and Times Herald 25 Oct. C2/1: The reaction gap between gays and straights to these plays is further.
at gay, n.1
[US] Wash. Post and Times Herald 28 Mar. D8: Frankie Saluto, the 39-year veteran midget-clown, uses [nicknames] though. The ones he knows best are ‘pie car,’ the area where he eats dinner of the train, and ‘ghost walk,’ which is how he fondly refers to pay day.
at the ghost walks under ghost, n.
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