† squint-a-pipesn.
slang. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
(See quot. 1788.)
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1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Squint-a-pipes, a squinting man or woman.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1788- in morocco
- in morpheus' arms
- in mortgage
- in most part
- in mote
- in mothballs
- in motion
- in motley
- in mountebankwise
- in mourning
- in mows
- in much esteem
- in much price
- in mufti
- in multicolour
- inceptive proposition
- inceptive tenses
- inceptive verb
- inceptively
- inceptives
- inceptor
- inceptors
- inceptorship
- incepts
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