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Five Years in an English University choose

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[US] C.A. Bristed Five Years in an Eng. University 23: A fast man [...] dresses flashily, talks big, and spends, or affects to spend, money very freely.
at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
[US] C.A. Bristed Five Years in an Eng. University 34: They are popularly denominated ‘empty bottles,’ the first word of the appellation being an adjective, though were it taken as a verb there would be no untruth in it.
at empty bottle (n.) under empty, adj.
[US] C.A. Bristed Five Years in an Eng. University 23: A fast man [...] dresses flashily, talks big, and spends, or affects to spend, money very freely.
at fast, adj.1
[US] C.A. Bristed Five Years in an Eng. University 158: I had become [...] a man who knew and ‘hung out to’ clever and pleasant people, and introduced agreeable lions to one another.
at hang out, v.1
[US] C.A. Bristed Five Years in an Eng. University 80: I remember the date from the Fourth of July occurring just afterwards, which I celebrated by a ‘hang-out’.
at hang-out, n.1
[US] C.A. Bristed Five Years in an Eng. University 344: Many [...] step [...] into the Church, without any pretence of other change than in the attire of their outward man, — the being ‘japanned’ as assuming the black dress and white cravat is called in University slang.
at japan, v.
[US] C.A. Bristed Five Years in an Eng. University 56: His university course has been a shipwreck.
at shipwreck (n.) under ship, n.1
[US] C.A. Bristed Five Years in an Eng. University 381: Classical men were continually tempted to ‘skin’ (copy) the solutions of these examples.
at skin, v.2
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