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Relatively large black bird. Could also be a reference to "Jim Crow", a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, which later was used as the name of the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation in the South.
No rules, regulations or government laws apply or will be enforced
A term for the Police. "Cool out nephew, them laws is coming around the corner again."Â
Police (rhyming slang for laws)
n. a policeman. "Watch out! One-time!" 2. n. a person who commits one offense and is now watched by the police. This term was derived when laws were passed during the late 80’s and early 90’s for cruising. If the same police officer saw you three times, they could pull you over and cite you for cruising. Thus, the term started when cruisers would cry out when a police was cited the “first time†“Yo, that’s one time!†The term became popularized by Ice Cube, Compton’s Most Wanted, Ice T, and Tupac Shakur in many of their songs.Â
A segregated room in a bar or restaurant for smoking tobacco. When anti-smoking laws were passed in Ontario, many bars, restaurants, and coffee shops installed special rooms where people could smoke, away from the other patrons. Known for their dense atmosphere and the short life expectancy of their occupants.
Sus laws was British slang for the law that authorized the arrest and punishment of suspected persons frequenting, or loitering in, public places with criminal intent. In England, the sus law formed part of the Vagrancy Act of which was repealed in .
Baby M laws is American slang for legislation regarding surrogate motherhood.
A segregated room in a bar or restaurant for smoking tobacco. When anti-smoking laws were passed in Ontario, many bars, restaurants, and coffee shops installed special rooms where people could smoke, away from the other patrons. Known for their dense atmosphere and the short life expectancy of their occupants.
Noun. A look, a glance. Also shufti. Derived from the Arabic sufti, meaning have you seen. E.g."Have a shufty at the copyright laws before you use this Peevish designed dictionary on your own website." [1940s] {Informal}
North American Man/Boy Love Association. NAMBLA, founded in December 1978. The organization supports and defends sex between boys and adults. thay insist there is a distinction between coercive and consensual sex. that would like to do away with the age of consent laws. They call for the empowerment of youth in all areas, not just the sexual. Note that mainstream gay and lesbian, view NAMBLA as child molesters, and distance themselves from this group. NAMBLA is not allowed in gay pride parades. http://www.nambla.org/index.htm http://www.realtime.net/~labinski/ausr01.txt
Anal copulation. May 26-1697-The Massachusetts Bay colony revised its sodomy laws. The name was changed from "sodomy" to "buggery," and it was lumped together with bestiality. Both remained capital crimes.
A segregated room in a bar or restaurant for smoking tobacco. When anti-smoking laws were passed in Ontario, many bars, restaurants, and coffee shops installed special rooms where people could smoke, away from the other patrons. Known for their dense atmosphere and the short life expectancy of their occupants.
Founder Harry Hay, In 1951 a non-profit organization for educating the public in all aspects of homosexuality. Mattachine Society, lobbied for the revision of federal,, state and municipal laws discriminating against gays in employment, and housing, the decriminalization of consensual sodomy between adults, and assembly, demanded honorable discharges for homosexuals in the armed forces, and the suppression of police harassment and entrapment, and the enactment of a bill of gay rights. http://www.sodomylaws.org/usa/dc/dcnews02.htm http://www.sbu.ac.uk/stafflag/mattachine.html http://www.shapingsf.org/ezine/gay/files/gaymatta.html http://qsfmagazine.com/qsf/9606/hay.html http://www.indegayforum.org/articles/varnell99.html http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/events/122000ev.htm
Used a lot during the Civil War. He was a stereotypical minstrel show character, history described here. Also used to describe segregationist laws in the south, but I recently read about a bus driver who was fired for using the term to describe a black person.
interj Christ. By this I don’t mean that Britain is under the grip of a strange new religion where Jesus Christ has been replaced by a man called Gordon Bennett, who came to earth in the guise of a used car salesman to save humanity from eternal damnation. No, I mean more that this is a general-purpose expletive, used in a similar context to “Christ!” or “Bollocks!”: Your brother Tommy’s won the lottery! / Gordon Bennett! Its source lies in the mid-19th century with James Gordon Bennett, son of the founder of the New York Herald and Associated Press (who was also called Gordon Bennett, in case you thought this was going to be simple). Born with cash to spare, Gordon Jr. became legendary for high-roller stunts and fits of notoriety including urinating in his in-laws’ fireplace, and burning money in public. His name entered the lexicon as a term of exclamation for anything a bit over the top.
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That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification.
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Pertaining to, or involving, taxonomy, or the laws and principles of classification; classificatory.
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In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.
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To differ, or be different; to be unlike or diverse; as, the laws of France vary from those of England.
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Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.
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Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires.
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Having the right or just claim according to established laws; being or holding by right; as, the rightful heir to a throne or an estate; a rightful king.
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The laws of animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.
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Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the law; the condition under which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity.
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To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.
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An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette.
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An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
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Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.
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The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.
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Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.
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The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly understood) "the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life."
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Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop.
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To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.
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A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book.
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A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
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