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[Ire] C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 215: ‘He is dead, poor fellow,’ said Conway, gravely. ‘I expected to have met you at his funeral.’ ‘So I should have been [...] but as in seeing old Paul “tucked in” they might have nabbed me.’.
at tucked away, adj.
[Ire] C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 166: Paul Kellett’s ruined – cleaned out – sold in the Encumbered what-d’ye-call-’ems.
at what-d’you-call-it, n.
[Ire] C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 48: [...] but ye see I wasn’t compos when I did it .
at compos, adj.
[Ire] C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 162: Every fellow [...] can tell you how he was squared, for it’s all on the ‘cross’ with them, Grog., just as in the ring.
at on the cross under cross, n.1
[Ire] C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 224: There, ‘liquor up,’ as the Yankees say, cried Davis, passing the decanter towards him.
at liquor-up, n.
[Ire] C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 217: If it were so legs would have no existence, and all that classic vocabulary of ‘nobbling,’ ‘squaring,’ and so on, have no dictionary.
at nobble, v.2
[Ire] C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 216: Wasn’t I in for a pot on Blue Nose, when Mope ran a dead heat with Balshazzar.
at pot, n.1
[Ire] C.J. Lever Davenport Dunn 166: Ain’t there any fellows about would give you a name to a bit of stiff, at thirty-one days’ date?
at bit of stiff (n.) under stiff, n.1
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