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[UK] Nat. Standard I 355/1: Their coats are of various fashions; they wear generally three kerchiefs round the neck, of different colours; their hair is arranged in Newgate drops, and a round tile tops their nob.
at Newgate drops (n.) under Newgate, n.
[UK] Nat. Standard of Lit. 11 Jan. 31/1: He liquors on a glass of ‘thunder and lightning" that’s hotter than Tophet and bites like a rattlesnake.
at thunder and lightning, n.
[UK] Nat. Standard of Lit. 11 Jan. 31/1: Here we have it, ‘on a large scale,’ — a roarer from the Salt Licks, chock-full of fun and fight, fisting and feeling, frolic and friendliness.
at roarer, n.
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