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- noun slang The greatest extent or degree of something; used in comparisons to indicate a
superlative .
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Examples
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One spoonful in a glass of water and it fizzed like billy-oh.
Fizzzz Pop! Peter Ashley 2008
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We also grilled terrible steaks (marinated like billy-oh with half a large onion sliced up in soy, garlic, ginger pulp, and pepper) on the grill (in good weather, the single best thing about being a homeowner and an American) and mollpeartree made her patented awesome mashed potatoes.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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* Hopefully, this is just the Seasonal Affective Disorder talking, as I am indeed seasonally disordered like billy-oh when the lovely azure Chicago sky and everything else in eyeshot turns "greige."
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004
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While we had been watching, the rest of our fleet had passed by, and was surging upriver, the sweeps going like billy-oh, and the square sails of the praus set to catch the light sea-breeze.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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Works like billy-oh to keep the home together and all that.
The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 05 1928
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You remember when we used to fight like billy-oh at
Enter Bridget Thomas Cobb 1893
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Many work like billy-oh, as delighted employers will testify.
The Policeman's Blog 2010
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Many work like billy-oh, as delighted employers will testify.
The Policeman's Blog 2010
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Many work like billy-oh, as delighted employers will testify.
The Policeman's Blog 2010
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Many work like billy-oh, as delighted employers will testify.
The Policeman's Blog 2010
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