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full house
noun- a combination of several non-existent diseases US
- Soldiers at a port of embarkation have been told in detail about the foregoing ailments and then told: “If you get a full house, you might just as well stay over there”. — American Speech, p. 305, December 1947: “Imaginary diseases in army and navy parlance”
- said of a person infected with both gonorrhea and syphilis US
- — Maledicta, p. 228, Summer/Winter 1981: “Sex and the single soldier”
- a state in which a person is infested with more than one form of parasite, such as head and body lice UK
- — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- in drag racing and hot rodding, a highly modified engine US
- — Hot Rod Magazine, p. 13, November 1948: “Racing jargon”
- — Good Housekeeping, p. 143, September 1958: “Hot-rod terms for teen-age girls”
- — Lyle K. Engel, The Complete Book of Fuel and Gas Dragsters, p. 151, 1968
- — Phantom Surfers, The Exciting Sounds of Model Road Racing (Album cover), 1997
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