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Devil's Dust was a name sometimes applied to old woollen goods when torn up into their original fibres, to be woven again into new fabrics, called shoddy.
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Mungo is a material similar to shoddy which is made from old woollen fabrics which have been torn up for remaking.
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Shoddy is wool obtained from woollen rags and wastes and re-spun into low cost, low quality clothes.
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Cowboy outfit is British slang for a firm or organisation that specialises in shoddy workmanship or dubious business practices.
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Rinky-dink is British slang for cute, neat, smart.
Rinky-dink is London Cockney rhyming slang for pink.
Rinky-dink is American slang for something shoddy, worn out, antiquated or worthless.
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Shlock is slang for shoddy, inferior.
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Shlockmeister is American slang for someone who sells shoddy goods.
Shlockmeister is American slang for a television quiz master.
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Shoddy dropper is Australian and New Zealand slang for a seller of cheap or falsely describe clothing.
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Ticky-tacky is American slang for shoddy, inferior.
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Toot is slang for a drinking spree.
Toot is slang for to snort drugs.
Toot is slang for an inhaleable drug, especially cocaine.
Toot is British slang for shoddy, inferior second-hand goods.
Toot is Dorset slang for to cry.
Toot is Australian slang for a lavatory.
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