twenty-threen.
Elliptical for twenty-three skidoo int. at skidoo v. 2b.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [interjection]
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twenty-three1930
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 72 We want to take a look at this burg an then twentythree.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xxiv. 443 One suspects that the queer slang use, a quarter of a century ago, of twenty-three for ‘get out’ arose in a chance situation of sportsmanship, gambling, crime, or some other rakish environment.
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n.1930- to get upon the skuff
- to get used to
- to get vent
- to get washed up
- to get water from a flint
- to get weaving
- to get wet
- to get what for
- to get what is coming to one
- to get where the hair is short
- to get while the getting is good
- to get wind of
- to get wise to
- to get wit of
- to get with
- to get with child
- to get with it
- to get with the programme
- to get within
- to get wood
- to get work up a head of steam
- to get wrong
- to get yours
- to get, , lose flesh
- to get, come, etc, unstuck