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[Can] R. Service ‘The Booby-Trap’ in Ballads of a Bohemian (1978) 572: A booby-trap! Ought to ’a known it! If that’s not a bastardly trick!
at bastardly, adj.
[Can] R. Service ‘Julot the Apache’ in Ballads of a Bohemian (1978) 427: You got so blind, last night, mon vieux.
at blind, adj.1
[Can] R. Service ‘The Booby-Trap’ in Ballads of a Bohemian (1978) 572: Ah, Joe! we’ll be pushin’ up dysies... together, old Chummie... good-night!
at chum, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘Julot the Apache’ in Ballads of a Bohemian (1978) 430: I’m on the honest now, I am; I’m all fed up with crime. / You mark my words, the page I turn is going to be clean.
at clean, adj.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Co-Co Fiend’ in Ballads of a Bohemian (1978) 498: The CoCo-Fiend [...] Here’s where Heav’n begins: Cocaine! Cocaine!
at coke fiend (n.) under coke, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘The Booby-Trap’ in Ballads of a Bohemian (1978) 372: Ah, Joe! we’ll be pushin’ up dysies . . . together, old Chummie . . . good-night!
at push up (the) daisies, v.
[Can] R. Service ‘Insomnia’ in Ballads of a Bohemian (1978) 439: Of tea I’ll make a rousing brew, / And coax my pipes until they croon, / And chant a ditty to the moon.
at pipes, n.1
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