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Hurricane lamp is London Cockney rhyming slang for tramp.
Verb. To hit, to clout. E.g."I can't believe she lamped him. Just for coming home drunk."
Telling sea stories. Referring to lamps slung from the deckhead which swing while at sea. The theory is that the more the lamp swings, the more the storyteller is exaggerating.
Tramp (hobo). I gave me last apple to that old paraffin
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Noun. A tramp, vagrant. Rhyming slang on paraffin lamp.
Oil lamp is London Cockney rhyming slang for tramp.
Lamp is slang for to look at.Lamp is British slang for to hit, assault, attack.
Chillin'. As in the Public Enemy song 'Cold Lampin' with Flava': "I'm lampin', I'm lampin', I'm cold cold lampin'."
Lamps is Black−American slang for ones eyes.
Paraffin lamp is London Cockney rhyming slang for a tramp.
Bicycle lamp is London Cockney rhyming slang for a tramp.
n Kerosene. The fuel used in some lamps, greenhouse heaters and such like. To confuse matters somewhat further, Americans call candle-wax “paraffin.”
Lamp along is Irish slang for to go along at a great pace.
To hit, e.g. "He lamped me a treat after I slagged off his bint!!".
Score (£20). I gave me last apple to that old paraffin.
Scruffy, smelly obnoxious tramp (the hobo not the female with liberated sexual attitudes). Rhymes with tramp, first used in a rather delightful poem about an old tramp called Harry Ramp: "Harry Ramp, The parafin lamp, Was a dirty bamp..." (ed: no idea if there are more lines or verses. Would appreciate them if there are any to send in)
Paraffin is London Cockney rhyming slang for gin.
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A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.
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Alt. of Paraffine
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An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.
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A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane.
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Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series.
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A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.
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A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon.
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One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum.
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One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane.
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A solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffine series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum.
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A light hydrocarbon oil resembling kerosene. It is obtained by distilling coal, paraffin, etc., and is used as a lubricant, illuminant, etc.
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A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in India, and practically identical with ordinary paraffin.
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A hydrocarbon, C24H50, resembling paraffin, and like it belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule.
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A monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether.
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A hydrocarbon radical, C10H21, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the paraffin series.
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A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, a white waxy substance, C19H40; -- so called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule.
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A heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H8, of the paraffin series, occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made artificially; -- called also propyl hydride.
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A hydrocarbon, C23H48, of the methane series, resembling paraffin; -- so called because it has twenty-three atoms of carbon in the molecule.
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A waxlike mineral resin; -- sometimes called native paraffin, and mineral wax.
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A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.
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