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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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