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butter and egg racket

butter and egg racket  n.β€” Β«He followed it by a six-city survey quoting records, officials and personal observations of the butter and egg racket. The game is a lottery played by low-income groups.…Bets are made on the butter and egg...

nest egg index

nest egg index  n.β€” Β«This “nest egg index,” as it was called, was conducted by A.G. Edwards, a St. Louis-based financial services company. It looked at money-saving data from 318 cities.Β» β€”β€œWest Side or East: The battle of...

doul

doul  n.β€” Β«Douling, my clever friends told me, derived from the Greek word for a slave, and in your first two years at school you could be compelled to do almost any task by either a House prefectβ€”they were called monitorsβ€”or your study...

douling

douling  n.β€” Β«Douling, my clever friends told me, derived from the Greek word for a slave, and in your first two years at school you could be compelled to do almost any task by either a House prefectβ€”they were called monitorsβ€”or your study...

banjo

banjo  n.β€” Β«Few things are more likely to get you a disapproving lecture from the cholesterol police than the bacon and egg sarnie.…Even the most inexperienced and dreadful cooks can rustle up a banjo, (as the sandwich is sometimes...

frogspawn

frogspawn n. jocularly, tapioca or similar starchy pudding. Editorial Note: The appearance of tapioca does very much resemble egg masses laid by amphibians. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)