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  • tickle
    [OED, to catch trout with the hands] v. to prod fish or lobster out of a coral reef with a
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  • tick for tack
     [from tit for tat] phr. like for like: 1925 Tik for tack, butter for fat, you kill my dog, I'll
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  • thunder-snake
    /tónda sneyk/ [Gul. idem (Gonzales 1922:336); OED, DAE different sp.] n. a snake, Typhlops biminiensis. <Andros, Nassau>
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  • thunder-rebel
    /tónda rébal/ <Black>; tender-rebel <Mayag.> [etym. uncertain but possibly a combination of thunder + able or terrible (in positive sense;
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  • thunder-ball, thunderstone
    [cf. Car. (DJE), OED poet, thunderbolt; cf. also OED thunderbolt a supposed bolt...believed to be the destructive agent in a
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  • throw
    /trow/ v. 1. [OED, to shoot, as a missile engine] to shoot (an arrow): 1966 Jack had about three arrow...he
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  • through the bush, in the bush
    [cf. THROUGH in + BUSH forest, alluding to the rhythm] phr. a type of MERENGUE dance music with an Afro-Latin
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  • through and through
    [OED prep. →1745] prep. throughout: 1954 Send the soldiers through and through the land, see if they could come cross
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  • through
    /truw/ [OED, from end to end] prep. 1. on (a street): They run a small hotel through Fowler Street (COB).
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  • thrive
    /trayv/ [cf. DJE strive thrive; by hypercorrection of trive,from strive by simplification of initial consonant cluster] v. to strive; He
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