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"(figuratively) Any group of people."
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"ref": "1847, Henry Cockton, The Love Match, page 232",
"text": "He was seldom indeed without two good trumps, and therefore almost invariably loo'd those who stood.",
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"(transitive) To beat in the card game lanterloo."
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"ref": "1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Man Who Would Be King”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, page 78",
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