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- noun Alternative form of
galoot .
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Examples
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"You are a liar, and if you will come out and show yourself I will shoot you down in your tracks, you lying Yankee galloot."
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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He looked at the ghost for a moment, and kept on lighting his cigarette, when a galloot up in the gallery said, so everybody could hear it, "He don't scare worth a damn!" and the audience went fairly wild, while the pretty girl stood there and blushed as though her heart would break.
Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 1878
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But all it takes is one useless galloot like you, and we'll be the talk of the steamie. "
The Distant Echo McDermid, Val 2003
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