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[UK] G.A. Sala London up to Date 61: Chinese ‘bucket-shop’ keepers [...] accomplished proficients at fan-tan.
at bucket shop, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala 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.
[UK] G.A. Sala 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.
[UK] G.A. Sala London up to Date 23: Aha! I hear my enemies ejaculate, Flunkey! Parasite! Snob! Toad-eater! Tuft-hunter! Flunkey!
at flunky, n.2
[UK] G.A. Sala 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.
[UK] G.A. Sala London up to Date 86: Charley Lightfingers, popularly known in swell-mob circles as ‘Nickemquick’.
at swell mob, n.
[UK] G.A. Sala 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
[UK] G.A. Sala London up to Date 329: The case, he incidentally adds, promises to be a nutty one.
at nutty, adj.1
[UK] G.A. Sala 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
[UK] G.A. Sala 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.
[UK] G.A. Sala 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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