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bath
noun- a heavy loss in a business or betting proposition US, 1936
- — Cars, p. 40, December 1953
- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 292, 1979
- — Kathleen Odean, High Steppers, Fallen Angels, and Lollipops, p. 94, 1988
- in television and film making, any of the chemical mixtures used to develop film US
- — Ira Konigsberg, The Complete Film Dictionary, p. 26, 1987
▶ be in anything except a bath
to not wash oneself very often; to have poor personal hygiene AUSTRALIA- — Leonard Mann, Flesh in Armour, p. 93, 1932
- Concealed as well as possible in the middle of the front rank was Able Seaman Dingo Hancock. Be in anything except a bath, as the saying goes and generally preferred fighting to other activities. — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 22, 1962
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