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[US] The State (S. Afr.) Sept. 243: In gaol for drunkeness [...] when only lekker or half-tipsy.
at lekker, adj.
[US] A. Carter in Michaels & Ricks ‘The Language of Sisterhood’ in State of the Lang. 233: The hippy penchant for play survives in the way sisters enjoy [...] ‘looning’ together, that is, dancing and clowning around for fun.
at loon (about/off), v.
[US] P. Howard State of the Lang. 31: A ‘beef bayonet’ is new slang, with the variant ‘beef torpedo’, for that old totem of slang, the male sexual organ.
at beef torpedo (n.) under beef, n.1
[US] P. Howard State of the Lang. 31: A ‘beef bayonet’ is new slang, with the variant ‘beef torpedo’, for that old totem of slang, the male sexual organ.
at beef bayonet (n.) under beef, n.1
[US] (ref. to WW1) P. Howard State of the Lang. 36: Anzac shandy (a mixture of beer and champagne favoured, or at any rate desired, by Australian and New Zealand troops in the First World War).
at Anzac shandy (n.) under Anzac, adj.
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