cockalorum

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Other plotters are Vincent Price and Edith Barrett, whose contributions to the high cockalorum are good, but occasionally strained.

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In the thunderous heyday of Prohibition gangsterism, Roger the Terrible was the jaunty cockalorum of northwest Cook County.

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The Daily Telegraph thought his cockalorum De Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac "a remarkable feat."

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Dizzy Gillespie, the high cockalorum of bop, was getting top billing at the rival Strand Theater.

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"Now, Lucas, dear boy," said Heriot genially, "tell this old cockalorum who you saw off on a steamer for South America."

From The Prodigal Father by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)