razoo
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of razoo
C20: of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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"Don't let 'em pull a razoo on you," he said, using the local slang for cheating at marbles.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Wild Cat, you say one o' these Jaspers was bendin' over Jo with this here razoo?"
From The She Boss A Western Story by Arthur Preston Hankins
I knowed yuh would—I was kiddin' yuh, runnin' that razoo with the gun.
From The Trail of the White Mule by B. M. Bower
Tom really is adorable and I let him snuggle up just one cousinly second, then we both laughed and began to plan what Tom was horrible enough to call the resurrection razoo.
From The Melting of Molly by Raymond Moreau Crosby
And his hull razoo was so plumb sensible that, ’fore he got done, the passel of us was all a-feelin’, somehow ’r other, that Bud Hickok had the drinks on us!
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Eleanor Gates
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