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Shop
·- imp. of Shape. Shaped.
II. Shop ·vi To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
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shop
A prison. Shopped; confined, imprisoned.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Go
·noun A glass of spirits.
II. Go ·noun Act; working; operation.
III. Go ·p.p. <<Gone>>.
IV. Go ·n...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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the go
The mode; the fashion. 'This is all the go.'
What! Ben, my old hero, is this your renown?
Is thi...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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go!
A word sometimes given when all is ready for the launch of a vessel from the stocks.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bucket shop
·- An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stock...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Shop talk
·add. ·- discussion about a matters pertaining to person's occupation;
— often used of such discuss...
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buttocking shop
A brothel.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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gospel shop
A church.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ironmonger's shop
To keep an ironmonger's shop by the side of a common, where the sheriff sets one up; to be hanged in...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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knack shop
A toy-shop, a nick-nack-atory.
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nyp shop
The Peacock in Gray's Inn Lane, where Burton ale is sold in nyps.
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pantile shop
A presbyterian, or other dissenting meeting house, frequently covered with pantiles: called also a c...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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schism shop
A dissenting meeting house.
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whistling shop
Rooms in the King's Bench and Fleet prison where drams are privately sold.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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slop-shop
A place where slop-clothing is sold.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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slop-shop
A place where ready-made clothing for seamen is sold, not at all advantageously to Jack.
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Go-between
·noun An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer;
— usually in a disparaging sense.
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Go-by
·noun A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to g...
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Go-devil
·add. ·noun A rough sled or dray used for dragging logs, hauling stone, ·etc.
II. Go-devil ·add. ·n...
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Go-out
·noun A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out...
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High-go
·noun A spree; a revel.
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go, the
The dash. The mode. He is quite the go, he is quite varment, he is prime, he is bang up, are synonim...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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go between
A pimp or bawd.
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go-ashore
n.
an iron pot or cauldron, withthree iron feet, and two ears, from which it was suspended bya wire...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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the go by
To give one the go by is to deceive him; to leave him in the lurch.--Craven Glossary.
TO GO BY
To ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to go for
To be in favor of. Thus, 'I go for peace with Mexico,' means I am in favor of peace with Mexico, or,...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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go ahead
To proceed; to go forward. A seaman's phrase which has got
I was tired out and wanted a day to rest...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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go-cab
a vulgar oath. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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go ahead!
or go on!
The order to the engineer in a steamer.
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go ashores
The seamen's best dress.
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go by
stratagem
♦ To give her the go by, is to escape by deceiving.
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go down
The name given to store-houses and magazines in the East Indies.
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go slow
The order to the engineer to cut off steam without stopping the play of the engine.
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sentry go!
The order to the new sentry to proceed to the relief of the previous one.
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weather-go
The end of a rainbow, as seen in the morning in showery weather.
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apple dumplin shop
A woman's bosom.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bow-wow shop
A salesman's shop in Monmouth-street; so called because the servant barks, and the master bites.
Se...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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slap-bang shop
A petty cook's shop, where there is no credit given, but what is had must be paid DOWN WITH THE READ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Merry-go-round
·noun Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; ·esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.
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thorough go nimble
A looseness, a violent purging.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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whither-go-ye
A wife: wives being sometimes apt to question their husbands whither they are going.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bung, to go
v.
to fail, to become bankrupt.This phrase of English school-boy slang, meaning to go off withan ex...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to go it blind
To accede to any object with out due consideration. Mr. Greeley, in speaking of General Taylor's cla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to go it strong
To perform an act with vigor or without scruple.
President Polk in his message goes it strong for t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to go to pot
To be destroyed, wasted, or ruined.--Johnson. Webster. Though much used, it is considered a low phra...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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as good's go
In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as go...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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go-by-ground
a little go-by-ground ; a diminutive person.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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go ashore, to
To land on leave.
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happy-go-lucky
A reckless indifference as to danger.
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stamp and go!
The order to step out at the capstan, or with hawsers, topsail-halliards, &c., generally to the fife...
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touch-and-go
Said of anything within an ace of ruin; as in rounding a ship very narrowly to escape rocks, &c., or...
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Long Shop in Cheap
A long shop or shed encroaching on the high street before the wall of St. Peter's church in Cheap wa...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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hand and pocket shop
An eating house, where ready money is paid for what is called for.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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two to one shop
A pawnbroker's: alluding to the three blue balls, the sign of that trade: or perhaps to its being tw...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dot and go one
To waddle: generally applied to persons who have one leg shorter than the other, and who, as the sea...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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go by the ground
A little short person, man or woman.
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to go the big figure
To do things on a large scale.
Why, our senators go the big figure on fried oysters and whisky punc...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to go the whole figure
To go to the fullest extent in the attainment of any object.
Go the whole figure for religious libe...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to go the whole hog
A Western vulgarism, meaning to be out and out in favor of anything. A softened form of the phrase i...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to go through the mill
A metaphor alluding to grain which has been through the mill. A Western editor observed that the mai...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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as good as go
In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as go...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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joy go with thee!
a favourable wish ; sometimes used ironically. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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let go and haul!
or afore haul!
The order to haul the head-yards round by the braces when the ship casts on the oth...
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let go under foot
See under foot.
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let go by the run
, or let go by the run.
Cast off at once.
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the crack, or all the crack. the fashionable theme, the go. the crack lay, of late is used, in the cant language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.
Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose