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A good smacking. When the shout 'Taxi!" went up after someone had farted, someone else would call 'sixes all round'. The 'sixes' were punches from anyone in the vicinity dished out to the farter.
Hand and fist is London Cockney rhyming slang for very drunk, intoxicated (pissed).
Vinyl records
Slang for the 16s in Cricket
Intimate, familiar, closely united as a hand and its glove.
If something is all at sixes and sevens then it is in a mess, topsy turvy or somewhat haywire!
Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or anger. A mild and antiquated curse.
Amos and Andy is British rhyming slang for brandy. Amos and Andy is British rhyming slang for shandy.
Sand and canvas is nautical slang for clean thoroughly.
On the U.S. census, African American is code number six on the list of ethnicities.
To be in a state of disorder and confusion.
Blood and sand is slang for menstruation.
Records.We sat around and dug "sides." Or, as George Crater (or was it Ira Gitler?) once put it, "I sat around with another musician and Doug Sides." ~ Bob Blumenthal
hairstyle cut shot on the sides and long at the back
Very tight stomach muscles.
If something is all at sixes and sevens then it is in a mess, topsy turvy or somewhat haywire!
Sixer is slang for a six−month prison sentence.
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a.
Having eight sides and eight angles.
v. t.
To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
n.
A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
adv.
Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
n.
Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.
conj.
If; though. See An, conj.
v. t.
An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.
n.
An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.
an.
Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases.
n.
A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
n.
Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.
conj.
It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.
a. & adv.
Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.
n.
A figure having eleven angles and eleven sides.
conj.
A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
a.
Having six sides and six angles; six-sided.
a.
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
conj.
In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go.
a.
Having four sides and four equal angles.
v. t.
To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.
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