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Slam
·noun The refuse of alum works. II. Slam ·noun Winning all the tricks of a deal. III. Slam ·noun T...

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slam
A trick; also a game at whist lost without scoring one. To slam to a door; to shut it with violence....

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slam
to slam one, to beat or cuff one strenuously, to push violently. He slam'd to the door. N. ...

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

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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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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...

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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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