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n. Nickname for a Bentley Continental Flying Spur luxury car. "I saw them fools jumpin' outta a all silver Spur at the crack-house... boy you know what's going on!" Lyrical reference: JIM JONES & RON BROWZ - Pop Champagne Tell ‘em Ron Browz here, hottest in AmericaGimme 16 bars and you know I’ll tear it upKnow its me when you see the Spur in your areaÂ
continental United States. Pg. 507
n braces. {these things}. This is just one small part of a whole category of cross-continental disasters – see “square brackets”.
Artificial knoll at end of classification yard over which cars are pushed so that they can roll on their own momentum to separate tracks. (See drop.) Also the summit of a hill division or the top of a prominent grade. Boomers generally referred to the Continental Divide as the Hump
Don't give a damn.
The money issued by Congress during the Revolutionary War. It eventually became synonymous with anything worthless.
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The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.
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The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.
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A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old") Saxon.
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Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money.
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In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.
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Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition.
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A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3.
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An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.
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The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds.
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Of or pertaining to a continent.
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