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fireworks
noun- a great disturbance; dramatic excitement UK, 1889
- an exchange of gunfire US, 1864
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 799, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- a police car with flashing lights US
- — Complete CB Slang Dictionary, 1976
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 154, 1981
- roadside flares warning motorists of an accident or other problem ahead US
- — American Speech, p. 268, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
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