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Oranges and Alligators choose

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[UK] I.D. Hardy Oranges and Alligators 151: ‘Have you the time?’ – receives no decisive or satisfactory answer. One man gives you ‘sun-time’ – otherwise known as ‘local’ or ‘cracker-time’.
at cracker, adj.1
[UK] I.D. Hardy Oranges and Alligators 223: Orlando, the county seat of Orange County, is a thriving, stirring, ‘live’ town.
at live, adj.
[UK] I.D. Hardy Oranges and Alligators 111: Almost every settlement [...] has its ‘coloured quarter,’ or ‘Nigger-town,’ as it is more often called by the white inhabitants.
at niggertown, n.
[UK] I.D. Hardy Oranges and Alligators 30: A third has ‘potted’ an alligator, about five feet long.
at pot, v.
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