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bobs-a-dying

A drunken revel (naval slang)

W.N.Glascock, Sailors and Saints, 1829 (I, 179), ‘Nothing but dining, and dancing, and Bobs-a-dying on deck from daylight till dark’. (Moe.)
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by twitley May 16, 2011