skillion

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One can also "shout" for everyone in the pub skillion(-room): A "lean-to", a room built up against the back of some other building, with separate roof spifflicated: punished, thrashed without mercy spree: prolonged drinking bout--days, weeks squatter: Someone who took up large areas of land, originally without official permission ("squatted"), for sheep especially.

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  • Mark Levin, Michael Savage and the skillion other broadcast Lords of Loud playing fast and loose with the truth.
  • Meanwhile, CNN is appalled the President pushed through a skillion page skillion dollar stimulus bill no one seems to have read. —  Hot Air » Top Picks
  • She lived in skillion-rooms at the back of the big weather-board Salvation Army barracks with two other "lassies," who did washing and sewing and nursing, and went shabby, and half starved themselves, and were baked in the heat, like scores of women in the bush, and even as hundreds of women, suffering from religious mania, slave and stint in city slums, and neglect their homes, husbands and children--for the glory of Booth The Pretty Girl was referred to as Sister Hannah by the Army people, and came somehow to be known by sinners as "Miss Captain." —  Children of the Bush
  • "How are you getting on We walked together towards the Union Office, where I had a camp in the skillion-room at the back. —  Children of the Bush
  • One can also "shout" for everyone in the pub skillion(-room): A "lean-to", a room built up against the back of some other building, with separate roof spifflicated: punished, thrashed without mercy spree: prolonged drinking bout--days, weeks squatter: Someone who took up large areas of land, originally without official permission ("squatted"), for sheep especially. —  Children of the Bush
 

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