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Under the Earth choose

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[UK] ‘Under the Earth’ Dick’s Standard Plays (1871) II iii: I am a bit of dirty riffraff, sir – a dirty, genuine scrap of tag, rag, and bobtail.
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[UK] ‘Under the Earth’ in Dick’s Standard Plays (1871) I i: Enjoyed crack society – devilish high society [...] The very tip-top of fashion.
at crack, adj.
[UK] ‘Under the Earth’ (n Dick’s Standard Plays ((1871)) II i: hart: Do you smoke? tom: Can a duck swim?
at can a duck swim? under duck, n.1
[UK] ‘Under the Earth’ in Dick’s Standard Plays (1871) II i: I say, Loo; you can’t lend me a fiver, can you?
at fiver, n.
[UK] ‘Under the Earth’ in Dick’s Standard Plays (1871) I i: What a guy you look!
at guy, n.1
[UK] ‘Under the Earth’ in Dick’s Standard Plays (1871) II iii: I’ll fight him – hic – or any other man – hic – only a one-er in the ribs.
at oner, n.
[UK] ‘Under the Earth’ Dick’s Standard Plays (1871) III iii: I never allow the boys in the street to call me that; and, to be called so to my face by a yellow, addle-pated, skulking rascal —.
at yellow, adj.
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