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London up to Date 61: Chinese ‘bucket-shop’ keepers [...] accomplished proficients at fan-tan.at bucket shop, n.
London up to Date 61: Chinese ‘bucket-shop’ keepers [...] accomplished proficients at fan-tan. London up to Date 358: An oleagineous stuff known as ‘Thames butter,’ was manufactured out of the slime and ooze of the filthy river and vended as genuine butter.at Thames butter, n.
London Up to Date 62: I should respectfully advise him [...] not to be in the habit of perambulating Pall Mall in a suit of dittoes and a pot hat.at ditto, n.
London up to Date 23: Aha! I hear my enemies ejaculate, Flunkey! Parasite! Snob! Toad-eater! Tuft-hunter! Flunkey!at flunky, n.2
London up to Date 91: It is one of Mr. Roe’s ‘good days,’ and [...] his Worship won’t make it very ‘hot’ for the night charges.at make it hot for (v.) under hot, adj.
London up to Date 86: Charley Lightfingers, popularly known in swell-mob circles as ‘Nickemquick’.at swell mob, n.
London up to Date 67: The proposers and seconders of the various candidates have warily ranged themselves on guard [...] and remain there hour after hour, skilfully ‘nobbling’ members as they enter.at nobble, v.2
London up to Date 329: The case, he incidentally adds, promises to be a nutty one.at nutty, adj.1
London up to Date 143: The guests’ lift takes you up to your sky-parlour on the sixth floor.at sky-parlour (n.) under sky, n.1
London up to Date 2: The writer who is ambitious to become an efficient ‘slummer’ must look as carefully to his training [...] as though he were a pugilist.at slummer, n.
London up to Date 61: [in UK] In this equally select and sumptuous place of resort for the aristocratic, the cultured, and the wealthy [...] the sky would rain black balls if such ‘poor white trash’ dared to come up for ballot.at white trash, n.
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