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"ref": "1986, Patricia Malcolmson, English Laundresses: A Social History, 1850-1930, page 30",
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"ref": "1978, John McGrath, Yobbo nowt, page 39",
"text": "But really you get your money from selling things — that's your line, and your Dad's isn't it? Using sexy dollies to con money out of people who've had to work for it. Well my daughter's not just a sugar-plum fairy to titillate men's fantasies, you know.",
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"ref": "1996, Billboard, number 45, page 24",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pile driving: block between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver",
"word": "iskutyyny"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "term not specific to bridge construction",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small truck",
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"plural"
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"word": "rattaat"
},
{
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"sense": "small truck",
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"masculine"
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"word": "wózek transportowy"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "táčka",
"sense": "small truck",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "та́чка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "teléžka",
"sense": "small truck",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "теле́жка"
},
{
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dólli",
"sense": "small truck",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "до́лли"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "filming: camera cart",
"word": "kameravaunu"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "operátorskaja teléžka",
"sense": "filming: camera cart",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "опера́торская теле́жка"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "frivolous or vapid young woman",
"word": "pimu"
}
],
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}
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"To hit a dolly."
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"ref": "1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12",
"text": "Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vadaïng the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by, or disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.",
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"ref": "2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian",
"text": "She minces past the brandy latch / to vada dolly dish for trade, silly / with oomph and taste to park.",
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"ref": "1891, Karl August Lentzner, Colonial English, page 65",
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