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soak noun- a person who illegally lends money at usurious rates US
- “When you tell me who’s banking the soaks along the docks I’ll get out.” — Mickey Spillane, The Big Kill, p. 41, 1951
- a drunk UK, 1820
- The names for drunkards and drunkenness in London are many and various–“soaks”, “whets”, “topers”, “piss-heads” and “piss artists”[.] — Peter Ackroyd, London The Biography, p. 359, 2000
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