Jeff
[dʒef]
Definition
n. a rope in circus slang.
v.i. to gamble with printers' quadrats thrown like dice.
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Examples
- General Wilson, hearing that Jeff. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- What does this unmannerly boy mean,' asked Mr. Gradgrind, eyeing him in a sort of desperation, 'by Tight-Jeff? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It proved very fortunate that the expedition against Jeff. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You're on the Tight-Jeff, ain't you? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Howard's command embraced the 15th and 17th corps, and Slocum's the 14th and 20th corps, commanded by Generals Jeff. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But little harm was done, as Jeff. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Jeff Davis Nelson's Battalion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Jeff Davis was a German! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At first I was to take personal command of a combined expedition that had been ordered for the capture of Colonel Jeff. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Tight-Jeff or Slack-Jeff, it don't much signify: it's only tight-rope and slack-rope. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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