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billingsgate

[ UK /bˈɪlɪŋsɡˌe‍ɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. foul-mouthed or obscene abuse

How To Use billingsgate In A Sentence

  • Following a celebrity-studded launch party at London's Old Billingsgate Market, featuring a PA from chart-topping rapper Example, 574 Game and Gamestation stores across the country opened specially to sell the first copies of Modern Warfare 3 to punters queuing outside. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 gets gamers fired up
  • Fourteen foreign ships, laden with fish, arrived at Billingsgate, which ships should have arrived at the said Hithe.
  • Billingsgate: the ships begin opposite the Tower: two or three great three-masted vessels are shown: and two or three smaller ships of the kind called ketch, sloop, or hoy. The History of London
  • The railway company extended a branch line to Brightlingsea to convey fish direct to Billingsgate.
  • The railway company extended a branch line to Brightlingsea to convey fish direct to Billingsgate.
  • You probably won't see such an immense array outside Billingsgate - jellied eels, smoked buckling, herring melts or whitebait to start, Torbay sole, red mullet, hake, six types of fish 'n' chips, or whole grilled Dover sole to follow.
  • Nevertheless, Thomas continued obstinate; and, at length declared, that if the dog was not shot immediately, he himself would be his executioner — This declaration opened the flood-gates of Tabby’s eloquence, which would have shamed the first-rate oratress of Billingsgate. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • He termed a pedestrian story about duplicate invoicing 'double billingsgate'. Times, Sunday Times
  • The railway company extended a branch line to Brightlingsea to convey fish direct to Billingsgate.
  • His rise to prominence as alderman of Billingsgate ward and of the German guildhall in London is a story worth telling, and the author does an admirable job of weaving together its various strands.
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