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Examples
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Even an alki-stiff would have reckoned himself immeasurably superior.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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Yet when all was ready, cans of alki in their solitary hands, the three things that had once been men hesitated, as if of old habit, and next betrayed shame as if at self-exposure.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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An alki-stiff is a tramp who drinks druggist's alcohol.
Chapter 13 2010
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For this man was that hybrid of tramp-land, an alki-stiff that has degenerated into a stew-bum, with so little self-respect that he will never "boil-up," and with so little pride that he will eat out of a garbage can.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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This colourless fluid was druggist's alcohol, and as such is known in tramp-land as "alki."
THE PRINCESS 2010
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It might be in a saloon with jingled townsmen, or with a genial railroad man well lighted up and armed with pocket flasks, or with a bunch of alki stiffs in a hang-out.
Chapter 21 2010
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I might be walking down the track to the water-tank to lie in wait for a passing freight-train, when I would chance upon a bunch of "alki-stiffs."
Chapter 13 2010
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From within the bundle he brought to light a twelve-ounce bottle of alki.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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One hobo, "truly horrible-appearing," was an alki-stiff who had degenerated into a stew-bum.
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