billy : Idioms & Phrases

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billy buttons

  • noun any of various plants of the genus Craspedia grown for their downy foliage and globose heads of golden flowers; Australia and New Zealand
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billy club

  • noun a short stout club used primarily by policemen
    nightstick; billystick; baton; billy; truncheon.
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billy goat

  • noun male goat
    billy; he-goat.
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Bil"ly goat`
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  1. A male goat. Colloq.
Webster 1913

billy graham

  • noun United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918)
    Graham; William Franklin Graham.
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billy mitchell

  • noun United States aviator and general who was an early advocate of military air power (1879-1936)
    William Mitchell; Mitchell.
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billy sunday

  • noun United States evangelist (1862-1935)
    Sunday; William Ashley Sunday.
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billy wilder

  • noun United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)
    Samuel Wilder; Wilder.
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billy-ho

  • noun an unimaginably large amount
    all get out; billyo; billyoh.
    • British say `it rained like billyo' where Americans say `it rained like all get out'
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Slubbing billy, ∨ Slubbing machine

  • the machine by which slubs are formed.
Webster 1913