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单词 tb-tested
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T.B.-tested
T.B. n. (also t.b.) tuberculosis; T.B.-tested adj., (of an animal) tested to establish the absence of tuberculosis; also (U.S. slang), a confidence trickster (see quot. 1930).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > tuberculosis
decline1783
tubercle1795
tuberculation1822
tuberculization1823
tubercularization1839
tuberculosis1839
tuberculocele1858
white plague1860
tuberculid1868
tuberculoderma1881
white scourge1895
tubercule1901
white death1901
T.B.1912
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > confidence trickster
magsman1822
confidence man1849
con artist1878
con man1889
T.B.1912
payoff man1927
pay-off1928
samfie1929
the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > free from disease > specific
cleanc1384
unpaining1634
unpalsied?a1656
unhypochondriacous1683
unmortified1732
ungangrened1753
uninflameda1793
uncrippleda1800
unbilified1823
unparalysed1888
uncramped1899
T.B.-tested1951
1912 D. Lowrie My Life in Prison iv. 33 He's doin' 35 years an' has the T.B.
1921 A. Mason Flying Bo'sun ii. 19 Their mother died two years ago... The doctor said it was T.B.
1930 J. Lait Big House i. 7 A confidence (or ‘con’) man is a ‘T.B.’, (‘con’ is short and slang for consumption, and ‘T.B.’ is ditto for tuberculosis).
1932 U. Sinclair Candid Reminisc. x. 88 The old captain was ill of TB.
1942 C. Himes in Crisis Oct. 314/1 Men..of all stages of deterioration—drifters and hop-heads and tb's and beggars and bums and bindle-stiffs and big sisters.
1951 J. Cannan And All I Learned x. 180 We've our own cows, T.B. tested and so beautifully kept.
1957 ‘S. Smith’ Not Waving but Drowning 38 I lay with my young bride in my arms, A girl with t.b.
1974 M. Butterworth Man in Sopwith Camel ii. 26 They wouldn't take me 'cos I'd had a touch of TB.
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