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The Character of the Beaux choose

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[UK] Character of the Beaux 21: A Hector or Bully-Beau, in general, is one who bilks Coaches, runs from Taverns without paying.
at bilk, v.
[UK] Character of the Beaux 21: A Hector or Bully-Beau, in general, is one who bilks Coaches, runs from Taverns without paying.
at bully-beau (n.) under bully, adj.2
[UK] Character of the Beaux 16: Damme, here’s a dam’d Play.
at damned, adj.
[UK] Character of the Beaux 18: Another sort of Beau, is what we generally style a Hector, or Bully-Beau.
at hector, n.
[UK] Character of the Beaux 17: O, Madam, I’m almost suffocated; stop my Vitals!
at stap my vitals!, excl.
[UK] Character of the Beaux 20: That Man turns down-right Pimp, and undertakes to help Men to Whores and Whores to Cullys.
at pimp, n.
[UK] Character of the Beaux 19: Thou they be accounted Men of Fortune, and Reputation [...] yet are glad to Pimp and Sharp about the Town to get a Penny.
at pimp, v.
[UK] Character of the Beaux 31: How now Jack-Scribble? What a pox are you going so Sparkish?
at what a pox! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] Character of the Beaux 29: Pray Sir, take my word for’t, there’s not such a Silk again, in the whole Row.
at Row, the, n.
[UK] Character of the Beaux 18: He walks to some Lady’s Lodgings in Pell-Mell, or St. James’s-Square; where he spends three or four Hours at Ombre, or Ticktack, and so Home again.
at tick-tack, n.1
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