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Slap
·vt To strike with the open hand, or with something broad. II. Slap ·noun A blow, ·esp. one given w...

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Bang
·noun A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. II. Bang ·noun The sound produced by a sudden concussion...

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to bang
To beat. ...

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bang
To beat, i. e. excel, to surpass. "This bangs all things."--Ohio. ...

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A mixture of opium, hemp-leaves, and tobacco, of an intoxicating quality, chewed and smoked by the M...

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Shop
·- imp. of Shape. Shaped. II. Shop ·vi To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. III. Sh...

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shop
A prison. Shopped; confined, imprisoned. ...

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slap-jacks
Pancakes made of the whole size of the frying-pan or spider. A country girl formerly was not conside...

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Slam-bang
·adv With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise. ...

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bang up
(WHIP.) Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up...

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bang straw
A nick name for a thresher, but applied to all the servants of a farmer. ...

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suffolk bang
A very poor and hard kind of cheese, which was indignantly refused in our North Sea fleet. It was, a...

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Bucket shop
·- An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stock...

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Shop talk
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buttocking shop
A brothel. ...

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go shop
The Queen's Head in Duke's court, Bow street, Covent Garden; frequented by the under players: where ...

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gospel shop
A church. ...

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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...

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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...

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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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slop-shop
A place where slop-clothing is sold. ...

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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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bang-tail muster
See quotation. 1887. W. S. S. Tyrwhitt, `The New Churn in the Queensland Bush,'p. 61: «Every third...

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apple dumplin shop
A woman's bosom. ...

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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...

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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...

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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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two to one shop
A pawnbroker's: alluding to the three blue balls, the sign of that trade: or perhaps to its being tw...

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