billingsgate

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In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage.

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

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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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There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.

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It reads now like very dreary and very vulgar billingsgate.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford