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The Ticket-Of-Leave Man choose

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[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man IV ii: Come along, Bob. All serene.
at all serene, adj.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act IV: hawkshaw: Here’s the old anchor, boys, and long may we live to swing it. all: The pick forever. Hip, hip, hurrah!
at anchor, n.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act II: If you will nobble a fellow’s bacca, you must take the consequences.
at bacca, n.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man IV ii: Lend me your barker.
at barker, n.1
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act I: A regular case of bilk—.
at bilk, n.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act III: There’s Aby Moss [...] He shall blow the lad to Gibson.
at blow, v.1
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act IV: He’s one of us now — a regular blue-stocking.
at blue stocking (n.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act IV: Now, fork out the pictures, old boy.
at old boy, n.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act I: You must bank with me till the brass comes.
at brass, n.1
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act III: If it was buzzed about that I kept a ticket-of-leave man in my employment —.
at buzz, v.1
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act I: I can’t have you cadging here.
at cadge, v.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act IV: Now a caulker to clinch the bargain.
at caulker, n.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act I: dalton: Bob, are you in cash? brierly: Welly cleaned out.
at cleaned (out), adj.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act IV: Nay, it sha’n’t be said Ginger Bill ever cleared a chap out.
at clear out, v.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act IV: Suppose we begin with a brandy and soda, to cool the coppers!
at hot coppers, n.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act III: I’ll drive to the bank — cash this — settle with those counter-skippers, and rattle back in time to see you turned off.
at counter-jumper, n.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act IV: Never put off till to-morrow the crib I can crack to-day.
at crack, v.2
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act I: Nobody shall say Bob Brierly craned while he could keep ’t going.
at crane, v.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act IV: You’ve the tools ready to jump that crib in St. Nicholas Lane?
at crib, n.1
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man IV ii: Moss, you be crow — two whistles if the coast ain’t clear.
at crow, n.2
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man IV ii: When Jem Dalton planted his tools, he never thought they’d come up darbies.
at darby, n.2
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act IV: Sam Willoughby in this place, and over the devil’s books, too.
at devil’s (picture) books (n.) under devil, n.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act II: In a suit of grey dittoes, a-stepping out with another chap.
at ditto, n.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act I: They put a fellow up to the dodges of the town though: for instance, these cases of bad notes offered at the Bank lately.
at dodge, n.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man IV ii: The man who tries to double on me, had better have the hangman looking after him, than Jem Dalton.
at double, v.2
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act III: Lark, lush, and a latch-key – a swell rig-out, and lots of ready in the pockets – a drag at Epsom and a champagne lunch on the hill!
at drag, n.1
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act II: Drat the boy’s imperence!
at drat, v.
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act IV: I had an awful go in of it last night at the balls, and dropped into a lot of ’em like a three-year-old.
at drop into (v.) under drop, v.1
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act III: What a duck of a bonnet!
at duck, n.1
[UK] T. Taylor Ticket-Of-Leave Man Act II: I shouldn’t wonder if it was some nasty ring-dropper.
at ring faller, n.
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