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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

  • One spoonful in a glass of water and it fizzed like billy-oh.

    Fizzzz Pop! Peter Ashley 2008

  • 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

  • * 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • You remember when we used to fight like billy-oh at

    Enter Bridget Thomas Cobb 1893

  • Many work like billy-oh, as delighted employers will testify.

    The Policeman's Blog 2010

  • Many work like billy-oh, as delighted employers will testify.

    The Policeman's Blog 2010

  • Many work like billy-oh, as delighted employers will testify.

    The Policeman's Blog 2010

  • Many work like billy-oh, as delighted employers will testify.

    The Policeman's Blog 2010

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