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Notes Works cited References External links 0-9 S.S. Kresge Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain, about 1920 86 Main article: 86 1. Soda-counter term meaning an item was no longer available 2. "Eighty-six" means to discard, eliminate, or deny service A abe's cabe 1. Five dollar bill 2. See fin, a fiver, half a sawbuck absent treatment Engaging in dance with a cautious partner ab-so-lute-ly ...
In Northern Germany, grog is a "classic winter drink from East Frisia" made of rum, sugar and water and heated to boiling point. [15] In Sweden and some subcultures within the English-speaking world , grogg is a common description of drinks not made to a recipe, but by mixing various kinds of alcoholic and soft drinks, fruit juice or similar ...
The dictionary was updated in 2005 by Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor as The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, [3] [4] and again in 2007 as The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, [5] which has additional entries compared to the 2005 edition, but omits the extensive citations.
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Total alcohol sales – beer, wine, spirits, seltzers, ready-to-drink cocktails – fell for the first time in three years, dipping less than 1% in 2024 to $112.9 billion from $113.6 billion in ...
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The Australian slang term "sly grog" combines two older English slang terms: (1) "on the sly", meaning "in a secret, clandestine, or covert manner, without publicity or openness". [ 1 ] James Hardy Vaux ’s Vocabulary of the Flash Language (1812) defined the term "upon the sly": "Any business transacted, or intimation given, privately, or ...
Dictionaries of slang, vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in verbal conversation but avoided in formal writing. Pages in category "Slang dictionaries" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.