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  • verb Present participle of lush.

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Examples

  • You know - lushing it up big time for an evening of laughs. good luck in London xxx

    Oswego Tea: the friend maker Michele 2006

  • After lushing about most of Saturday doing washing and things, I enjoyed a nice dinner with a friend at Lupa Trattoria.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • After lushing about most of Saturday doing washing and things, I enjoyed a nice dinner with a friend at Lupa Trattoria.

    Half moon. 2005

  • That's what he meant by church saloons and religious lushing, then.

    Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912

  • "There's mighty little I don't expect of him -- if only he can cut out the lushing."

    Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912

  • To lessen this evil, the detectives one night quietly made visits to some half a dozen "lushing cribs," as they are called, in Eighth and Fourteenth Streets, and seized about thirty noted thieves, burglars, and garroters, and locked them up for safe - keeping.

    The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 Joel Tyler Headley 1855

  • Suppose Bess were to address you thus: 'Well you parish bull prig, are you for lushing jackey, or pattering in the hum box?'

    Pelham — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Suppose Bess were to address you thus: 'Well you parish bull prig, are you for lushing jackey, or pattering in the hum box?'

    Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • They have all been arrested for lush working, or "lushing," since 2006.

    NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL WILSON 2011

  • Which is healthier: the Prince, as privy councillor, getting out his fountain pen, or a billionaire lushing up Peter Mandelson on a yacht?

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

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