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The Tragedy of Z choose

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[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 88: He was in a sweat, shaky as a new case drunk on potato water.
at case, n.1
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 41: I’ve had a chin-chin with the servants.
at chin, n.2
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 67: Yep, that cinches it.
at cinch, v.
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 103: So much rotgut went to my conk.
at conk, n.1
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 70: She flipped a gob of ash off the tip of the cigar.
at gob, n.2
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 49: Kenyon bawled at his men: ‘Any o’ you lunks been at the desk?’.
at lunk, n.
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 107: Nerts! Listen, Pat, be serious.
at nerts!, excl.
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 36: ‘The old oil,’ growled Father, tossing the carbon aside.
at oil, n.
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 189: ‘Oh, come on,’ I said. ‘Don’t be an old poke.’.
at old poke (n.) under old, adj.
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 104: I knew somethin’ screwy’d been pulled off on me.
at pull one off (on) (v.) under pull, v.
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 56: So that’s the kind of smelly spalpeen this gorilla was!
at smelly, adj.
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 39: ‘Squat, Sherlocka,’ he said. ‘If you insist on parking here, you may as well do your heavy thinking off those beautiful little feet of yours.’.
at squat, v.
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 123: I’m washed up here anyway.
at washed up, adj.1
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 103: I wants to wet my whistle.
at wet one’s whistle (v.) under wet, v.
[UK] B. Ross Tragedy of Z 115: Well, you dig, younker, and you’ll be President of the United States some day.
at younker, n.
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