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  • timey
    [from time + -y adj. suffix; cf. pricey] adj. time-consuming: That job is even more timey (Nassau).
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  • time table
    [also US Black (Loman 1967:88); cf. Brit. six times table numbers from 1 to 12 multiplied by 6 (Pye p.c.)]
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  • time is quick on me
    phr. time passes quickly for me.
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  • time as
    [DHS, by the time that (colloq.; mostly Cockney); also US dial. South ADD] conj. as soon as: 1977 (Jones 15).
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  • timber
    [W Car.; OED timbers the frames of a ship's hull nautical] n. a board forming part of the lengthwise frame
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  • till, until
    [also Gul. (Parsons 1923:12), US Black (Parsons 1917b:.224); OED idem obs.→1738] conj. so. ..that: He so biggerty till he picking
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  • tight up
    [cf. OED tight drunk, tipsy slang] phr. drunk: He tight right up (Exuma).
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  • tight bowels
    [by opposition to OED loose of the bowels: relaxed] n. constipation.
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  • tight
    adj. [from tight curls] (of hair) nappy. (Black) -n. [cf. US Black tight intimate, from an initially sexual use (Gold)]
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  • tiger grouper
    [from its stripes] n. a fish, Mycteropems tigris: 1968 (Böhlke 285). = SPECKLE-EYE (HIND) <Inagua, Andros>
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