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Calcutta
noun- butter UK
Rhyming slang. - — Ray Puxley, Fresh Rabbit, 1998
- a Calcutta sweep AUSTRALIA
- The event of the evening was the Calcutta, when three score men and women thronged the dark, smoke-laden back parlour for the auction of sweep tickets that had won a horse. — George Farwell, Land of Mirage, p. 120, 1950
- The promoting of Calcuttas today, on such races as the Melbourne Cup, is quite pointless as the results will have no bearing on the prices offered on the course. — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 116, 1982
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