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Definition of Smalltime
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smalltime
Literary usage of Smalltime
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and by Peter Force (1844)
"... that they themselves will sufficiently supply the defect of Servants: And in
smalltime become a Nation of themselves sufficient to people the Country ..."
2. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"Yet we discharged certain great shot at him, wherewith (after he had played with
us for a smalltime) he left us: so that presently we lost sight of him, ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis ( Bacon (1824)
"... but rested upon the natural-born subjects of Sparta, how that a smalltime
after they had embraced a larger empire, they were presently surcharged, ..."
4. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"... or rate of increase of the flowing or variable quantities, in an indefinitely
smalltime. The notation of increment is different by different authors. ..."
5. Comedians All by George Jean Nathan (1919)
"... slapstick and seltzer siphon so brilliant that it must fetch a tear of envy
to the entrepreneurs of burlesque, smalltime vaudeville and the pie film. ..."
6. Snake Walkers by J. Everett Prewitt (2005)
"Roach was a smalltime dope dealer, but he always had a stash. He was an ex- boxer,
but always looked like he had just left the gym. ..."
7. Cartularium Prioratus de Gyseburne, Ebor. Dioeceseos, Ordinis S. Augustini by Guisborough priory, William Brown (1894)
"Seal, black in consequence of its poverty had wax, 2J x 1-fg, bears a device in
the stood vacant no smalltime, "propter form of a cross. ..."
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