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quail
noun- a woman US, 1859
- He goes to the jukery to watch and wait and cut a rug with a solid gate: he snatches a quail with hep and class and they go to town cooking with gas! — Haenigsen, Jive’s Like That, 1947
- I fix him up with the fanciest quail in Greater Manhattan. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 248, 1954
- a girl under the legal age of consent US
A shortened form of SAN QUENTIN QUAIL- — Radio Shack, CBer’s Handy Atlas/Dictionary, p. 38, 1976
- a twenty-five cent betting token used in of craps US, 1983
- — Thomas L. Clark, The Dictionary of Gambling and Gaming, p. 170, 1987
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