Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Colloq. or Cant A workingmen's resort conducted under religious influences as a counteractant to the drinking saloon.
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Examples
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His head whirled like a tee-to-tum, and his pulses beat sharp and irregular as the detonations of a bundle of crackers.
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The Gladstonian tee-to-tum cannot have many more revolutions to make.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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The Gladstonian tee-to-tum cannot have many more revolutions to make.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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'The river is smooth enough to-day, but I should not care to be in his boat when he gets in the whirl of the bridges; that tub will spin round like a tee-to-tum.'
Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873
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