Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
drop , 2.
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Examples
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“A filthy rag, which he must have used as a handkerchief, and some cigarette butts in a cough-drop tin.”
Maigret and the Loner Simenon, Georges -101 1971
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“A filthy rag, which he must have used as a handkerchief, and some cigarette butts in a cough-drop tin.”
Maigret and the Loner Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1971
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"Mr. Holcombe, if you saw one of the cough-drop Smith brothers in real life, would you recognize him?" asked Wynand.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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One o 'the lightermen said I was a' wonder, 'and the other said I was a' fair cough-drop. '
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One o 'the lightermen said I was a' wonder, 'and the other said I was a' fair cough-drop. '
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To expect a pill and receive a cough-drop is by way of being a sort of disappointment.
The Crystal Stopper Maurice Leblanc 1902
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Round and round we began to circle like game cocks spoiling for a fight; rising, forgetting, in the excitement, the cold of the upper air -- higher and higher, till Nap shouted, "We'll get her beneath us in the next round and then for a 'cough-drop' or the gun."
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The old cough-drop don't mean to go without his _kady_!
Three Hats A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts Arthur Shirley 1889
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Covering such gems as cocaine cough-drop marketed to children and the recent children's bead product that metabolised to
Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community Jes Fraser 2010
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Covering such gems as cocaine cough-drop marketed to children and the recent children's bead product that metabolised to
Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community 2010
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