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[UK] C. Rook London Side-Lights 130: Go home and bottle it!
at bottle it, v.1
[UK] C. Rook London Side-Lights 27: A hundred years ago the ‘cit’ was distinct from the ‘buck,’ and London was big enough to contain many warring peoples.
at cit, n.
[UK] C. Rook London Side-Lights 278: He had followed [...] for a couple of miles of hard running. ‘Most lost me king,’ he said to the cabman. [...] this was an instance of the rhyming slang, that ‘breath’ was once rhymed with ‘King Death’.
at king (death), n.
[UK] C. Rook London Side-Lights 123: Opposite was the young man in spectacles. Goggles I called him.
at goggles, n.
[UK] C. Rook London Side-Lights 75: She always calls me Kiddy.
at kiddy, n.
[UK] C. Rook London Side-Lights 272: We pay sixpence if we take a seat in the body of the hall, and ninepence if we do the nobby and ascend to the balcony.
at nobby, adj.
[UK] C. Rook London Side-Lights 277: [as cit. 1856].
at top o’ reeb, n.
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