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Redemption for cash of gambling counters at the end of a game. Catching the bus [6] To commit suicide. Slang. Originated from the Usenet newsgroup alt.suicide.holiday. Charon. Ferryman of Hades. Neutral. Crosses the rivers Styx and Acheron which divide the world of the living from the world of the dead.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald This glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States is an alphabetical collection of colloquial expressions and their idiomatic meaning from the 1900s to the 1930s. This compilation highlights American slang from the 1920s and does not include foreign phrases. The glossary includes dated entries connected to bootlegging, criminal activities, drug usage ...
v. t. e. This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States. In Commonwealth of Nations, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and Australia, some of the British terms listed are used, although another usage is often preferred. Words with specific British English meanings that have ...
Nom de guerre of Geri Halliwell, a member of the 1990s pop group the Spice Girls. As recounted in "Spare," Harry met the Spice Girls at a concert in South Africa shortly after his mother's death ...
8 February 2006. Imprisoned at. Old Colony Correctional Center. Neil Entwistle (born 18 September 1978) is an English man convicted of murdering his American wife, Rachel, and their infant daughter, Lillian, on 20 January 2006, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole and is incarcerated ...
British sailor, circa 1790. " Limey " (from lime / lemon) is a predominantly North American slang nickname for a British person. The word has been around since the mid-19th century. Intended as a pejorative, the word is not commonly used today, though it retains that connotation. [2][3] The term is thought to have originated in the 1850s as ...
Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American man who shot and killed English musician John Lennon in New York City on December 8, 1980. As Lennon walked into the archway of The Dakota, his apartment building on the Upper West Side, Chapman fired five shots at the musician from a few yards away with a Charter Arms Undercover.38 Special revolver.
Hiller B. Zobel. Louise Woodward, born in 1978 (age 45–46), is a British former au pair, who at the age of 18 was charged with murder, but was subsequently convicted of involuntary manslaughter (reduced from the jury trial verdict) of eight-month-old baby Matthew Eappen, in Newton, Massachusetts, United States of America. [1] Eappen died from ...