1852 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.
1852 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.
1852 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
1852 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
1852 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
1852 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.
1852 C.A. Bristed Five Years in an Eng. University 56: His university course has been a shipwreck.at shipwreck (n.) under ship, n.1
1852 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