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A lush is chiefly American slang for a drunkard or alcoholic and dates in this sense from the mid-19th century. It is thought to be derived from a lar...
Luvvy is a modern British colloquialism that has been popular in the theatre world since the early 1980s and was originally used by camp, affected the...
Lynching has come to mean the illegal execution of anyone by a mob and is first cited in this sense from the late 19th century in America. Although ly...