billingsgate

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While illicit lovers, escaped lunatics and stranded Passion players create bedlam, and soft soap is interspersed with billingsgate, the actress and the producer outham, in an effort to outwit, each other.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence.

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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.

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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

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Douglas waxed furious and poured out his "senatorial billingsgate" upon the offenders.

From Life of Stephen A. Douglas by Gardner, William