The tramp bent over to pick up an old soldier off the pavement

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• old soldier — 1. n. a cigarette or cigar butt; a hunk of tobacco. □ The tramp bent over to pick up an old soldier off the pavement. □ He’s never had anything but an old soldier for a smoke. 2. n. an empty liquor bottle; an empty beer bottle or can. □ Larry hid …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium