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    [Noun]  | "bil*lings*gate" | \ ˈbi-liŋz-ˌgāt \


    1: coarsely abusive language


    Origin: 1652 ;

     Billingsgate, old gate and fish market, London, England;

    [Noun]  | "billingsgate" 


    1: harsh insulting language;


      * e.g., " ... the intemperate billingsgate to which the staff in customer service were sometimes subjected "



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     [ "billingsgate" ]

    1: A vulgar and abusive language intended to condemn a person or action.

      * e.g.,  ... He was condemned for using prison billingsgate at the company meeting. 

     [ "Billingsgate" ]

    1: coarsely abusive language

      * e.g.,  ... was once the name of an actual gate, located in London. It was the site of a fish-market, which took on this name in the 14th century. The market was famed for the vulgarity of the fishmongers’ speech, and so billingsgate came to be synonymous with abusive and coarse language. 

     [ "Billingsgate" ]

    1: What one says when confronted by a overpowering fishy smell.

      * e.g.,  ... Damn that Samantha has SERIOUS billingsgate boy: Billingsagate!!! 


     [ "Billingsgate" ]

    2: or when you see a girl with her legs ajar.

      * e.g.,  ... girl: Sorry il keep them closed next time :'(. 


     [ "Billingsgate" ]

    3: (preferably both)^ Dirives from the big smelly fishmarket in london known as Billings-gate Market.

     [ "Billingsgate Sasquatch" ]

    1: Isn't it that one guy that played Sherlock Holmes?

      * e.g.,  ... Friend 1: Have you seen the new Sherlock TV show? 

     [ "billingsgate sasquatch" ]

    1: euph; anything that is large, greasy, covered in hair and reeks of fish.

      * e.g.,  ... when little miss muffet showed me her tuffet, i didn't expect it to be the billingsgate sasquatch. 

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