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dumpling-depot en · NOUN
Meanings
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(archaic, humorous, slang) Synonym of breadbasket (“the abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack”).
But the mashers glared through their eyeglasses with surprise, as Montague's cheese whirled along, and flattened the waiter's dumpling-depot like a pancake.
1886, Judy's Annual, volume 38, page 182:"And because you would'nt^([sic]) let him he doubled you up with a wallop in your dumpling-depot, did'nt^([sic]) he?"
1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, page 35:
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Synonyms
breadbasket