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- noun Alternative spelling of
hip flask .
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Examples
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Any of these is preferable to shuffling around a drowsy cluster of third-hand camping supplies, wearing tattered fingerless gloves and pulling on a hip-flask of thermometer drainings.
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Sipping morphine from a hip-flask and calling his tumour 'Rupert'Murdoch.
The Truth Will Out. Fathorse 2008
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Why shouldn't I be able to bring my hip-flask onto Air Force One with me?
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The flacon of Nuit de Noël is made of black crystal glass, and looks like a cross between an ink bottle and a hip-flask, adorned with a Charleston-style gold headband.
Archive 2007-11-01 Ayala Sender 2007
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The flacon of Nuit de Noël is made of black crystal glass, and looks like a cross between an ink bottle and a hip-flask, adorned with a Charleston-style gold headband.
Nuit de Noël Ayala Sender 2007
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He may have been equipped with a hip-flask and a packet of sweet toast.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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Today he is remembered mostly for his stories of Archy and Mehitabel, a lowercase cockroach and a toujours gai alley cat, but in his lifetime Marquis was known equally well for the Old Soak -- a hip-flask philosopher who struggled to endure the dry days of Prohibition.
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They saw him pause and take a long swig from a king-sized hip-flask.
Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983
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My impression is that meanwhile he exploded a bit, in those hip-flask days.
There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972
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My impression is that meanwhile he exploded a bit, in those hip-flask days.
Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970
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