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Moscow noun a pawnshop AUSTRALIA, 1941- We find the English cant term moskeneer, to pawn, which survives in Australia today in the phrase gone to Moscow, which has nothing to do with the Soviet capital, but which simply means “pawned”. — Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, p. 26, 1945
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 60, 1977
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