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[UK] W. Granville Sailors’ Sl. 46/1: Fanny Adams, general nautical slang for stew or hash.
at fanny adams, n.1
[UK] W. Granville Sailors’ Sl. 41/1: Dog robbers. Civilian clothes worn by Naval officers when ashore. From the type of check suits worn by men who sell (stolen) dogs at street corners.
at dog-robber, n.
[UK] W. Granville Sailors’ Sl.
at Pompey, n.
[UK] W. Granville Sailors’ Sl. 97/2: Rort, to shout in argument or act truculently when charged with indiscipline... In Cockney Slang to rort is to ‘shout the odds.’.
at rort, v.2
[UK] W. Granville Sailors’ Sl. 97/2: Rort, to shout in argument or act truculently [...] In Cockney Slang to rort is to ‘shout the odds’.
at shout the odds (v.) under shout, v.
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