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Whitechapel

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Whitechapel [ˈwaɪtˌtʃæpəl]
n
(Group Games / Billiards & Snooker) Billiards the act of potting one's opponent's white ball
[slang use of Whitechapel, a district of London]


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For you might spend your life, say, in studying the London street boy, and write never so movingly and humourously about him, yet would he never know your name; and though Whitechapel makes novelists, it does so without knowing it,--makes them to be read in Mayfair,--just as it never wears the dainty hats and gowns its weary little milliners and seamstresses make through the day and night.
To the city they went accordingly, with all the speed the hackney coach could make; and as the horses happened to live at Whitechapel and to be in the habit of taking their breakfast there, when they breakfasted at all, they performed the journey with greater expedition than could reasonably have been expected.
You'll pass for Whitechapel if the worst comes to the worst and you don't forget to talk the lingo.
 
 
 
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