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"ref": "1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 13, column 2:",
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"(intransitive, informal) Lash out, strike out."
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"ref": "1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 13, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 159:",
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