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

The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.

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

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On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.

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Amid sounds of a scuffle and the continuous outpouring of billingsgate the light over the garage door flashed on suddenly and disclosed Flynn in the act of precipitating himself into the fray.

From Lady Larkspur by Nicholson, Meredith