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money. Usually meaning a large amount of spending money held by a person when out enjoying themselves. London slang from the 1980s, derived simply from the allusion to a thick wad of banknotes. Popularity of this slang word was increased by comedian Harry Enfield.
a pound, from the late 1800s, and earlier a sovereign, probably from Romany gypsy 'bauro' meaning heavy or big, and also influenced by allusion to the iron bars use as trading currency used with Africans, plus a possible reference to the custom of casting of precious metal in bars.
Mutual rubbing of lotion as a prelude to sexual advance, to "break the ice." The allusion is to the way monkeys and apes will offer to groom one another on first meeting, to allay mutual fear of approaching a stranger.
Noun. The female genitals with particular allusion to pubic hair.
money in banknotes, 'folding' money - orginally US slang according to Cassells, from the 1900s, also used in the UK, logically arising because of the leaf allusion, and green was a common colour of dollar notes and pound notes (thanks R Maguire, who remembers the slang from Glasgow in 1970s).
 A jocular allusion to the uses of soda water.
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Switchman, so called because of red lights on switch stands. Also any railroad man who is always figuring on the best jobs and sidestepping undesirable ones (based on the old allusion, "Life is a bowl of cherries")
The devil was possibly a slang term for the garboard seam, hence "between the devil and the deep blue sea" being an allusion to keel hauling.
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
check something out, inspect
Cup of black coffee
The male genitalia.
to make something or someone kool,hott or sexier
Crazy person.
A begger.
Native American feasts, dances and public doings.
Ko is boxing slang for a knockout.
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n.
Esculin; -- so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions.
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Ordinary camphor; -- so called in allusion to the family name (Lauraceae) of the camphor trees. See Camphor.
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The quality of being allusive.
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That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion; as, slander may be conveyed by insinuations.
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An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side. N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 243-246.
a.
Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.
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The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.
v. t.
To hint; to suggest by remote allusion; -- often used derogatorily; as, did you mean to insinuate anything?
adv.
Figuratively [Obs.]; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation.
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A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive.
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Allusive.
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One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.
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The thickened posterior border of the corpus callosum; -- so called in allusion to its shape.
v. i.
To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something.
v. t.
To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.
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Hematite or specular iron ore; -- prob. so called in allusion to its feeble magnetism, as compared with magnetite.
v. t.
Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions.
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A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
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A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow. S () the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it is silent, as in isle, debris. With the letter h it forms the digraph sh. See Guide to pronunciation, // 255-261.
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An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc.
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