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  • short seller: one who engages in short selling. (UK, slang, obsolete) One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins. 1858, George Borrow...
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  • Southern, Peter George, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, spoken by President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers): Gentlemen...
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  • me blind, strike me pink, strike me silly, strike me up a gum tree 1902, George Cupples, The Green Hand, page 18: Well, strike me lucky, mates all, if the...
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  • To bargain or haggle with a seller in order to obtain a lower price for a good or service. Antonym: jew up 1861, George W. Henry, Tell Tale Rag, and...
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  • wyth ryche and ſellers of vytayle It is not honest, it may not advance / To deal with such poor people / But all with rich, and sellers of food A ration...
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  • Pennsylvania. A census-designated place in Spokane County, Washington, named after George Meade. A town in Clark County, Wisconsin. East Mead Meadville According...
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  • of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity. 1866 October 1, Frederic Seebohm, “The Oxford Reformers of 1498. Chapter VII.”, in George Henry...
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  • she said, and she said if users have an affiliate relationship with the sellers of counterfeit goods, they could also potentially be liable. (informal...
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  • Salton, Inc., “[Great Appetizers & Snacks] Crab-Filled Wonton”, in 50 Great George Foreman® Lean Mean Contact Roasting Machine Recipes!, Rocklin, Calif.: Pascoe...
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  • 6d. 1872, Charles Dickens, Jr., editor, All the Year Round, page 424: George Sims, a tripeman in St. James's Market always forward in street quarrels...
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  • food vendors, candle makers, clothes sellers, tattooists, piercers, jewellers, and drug pedlars. 2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam...
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  • (chewing preparation) containing these and other plant materials; paan. 1934, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Burmese Days‎[1]: He went to the rail to spit out...
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  • Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet...
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  • Prejudice: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC: Lydia was a stout, well-grown...
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  • shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […] 1926, George Herriman, comic strip Us Husbands, June 12th, 1926 (reprinted in the back...
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  • Powell, for George Risk, at the Shakespear's Head, George Ewing, at the Angel and Bible, and William Smith, at the Hercules, book-sellers in Dame's-Street...
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  • bogus-maker 1846 January 2, William Clayton (quoting Brigham Young), edited by George Dempster Smith, An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton,...
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  • Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC: Where there are many sellers and few purchases, land will be cheap. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell...
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  • (theater) A spotlight. 1980, Peter Evans, Peter Sellers: The Mask Behind the Mask, page 30: Sellers moved on until he was actually trusted to operate...
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  • decorations, or any Christmas decorations”). 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Of the Sellers of Trees, Shrubs, Flowers (Cut and in Pots), Roots, Seeds, and Branches”...
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