hurrygraphn.
/ˈhʌrɪɡrɑːf//ˈhʌrɪɡraf/ U.S.
Something done, produced, or experienced in a hurry, esp. a hasty glance or fleeting impression.
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1851 N. P. Willis (title) Hurry-Graphs.
1851 Oquawka (Illinois) Spectator 3 June 1/1 Just as we are ‘putting up’ this hurry graph a flat boat is passing up First street laden with several hundred sacks of grain.
1861 Independent 31 July I must close this hurrygraph, which I have no time to review.
1886 Cassell's Family Mag. June 417/1 Idyllic countryside stations,..the town-tired traveller catches ‘hurry-graphs’ of them sufficiently tempting for him to wish that the ‘limited mail’ were a City omnibus.
1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 331 The traveller by rail..notices only its beauty[i.e. of the country] from the ‘hurrygraphs’ he gets.
1918 W. P. Trent et al. Hist. Amer. Lit. I. iii. 242 Fleeting impressions, ‘dashes at life’, ephemera, ‘hurrygraphs’ were his forte.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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n.1851- to come thanks
- to come the
- to come the acid
- to come the big figure
- to come the double
- to come the fob on
- to come the levant
- to come the old acid
- to come the old soldier
- to come the old soldier over a person
- to come the paddy over
- to come the possum over
- to come the possum over a person
- to come the raw prawn
- to come the raw prawn etc
- to come the raw prawn over
- to come the raw prawn with
- to come the rothschild
- to come the —— over a person
- to come the —— with
- to come thereby
- to come through
- to come through the hard
- to come through the hards
- to come through the heckle pins