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The Poet of the Breakfast Table choose

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[US] O.W. Holmes Poet of the Breakfast Table 341: It used to be said that if an unknown landsman showed him self in the streets, the boys would follow after him, crying, ‘Rock him! Rock him! He’s got a long-tailed coat on’.
at rock, v.1
[US] O.W. Holmes Poet of the Breakfast Table 288: He gave me to understand that pop guns were played out, but that he had got a squirt and a whip.
at squirt, n.
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