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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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gazumping
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A more splendid word of the 1920s, 'gazoomphing', was of unknown origin but meant the perpetrating of a swindle. In its modern duller form it became widely used in the 1970s. By then it was limited to real estate, and meant offering a property at a higher price to a new purchaser after verbal agreement had been reached with another.
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