cuspidor

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a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place)

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Should Villa's brigands board and search the train, surely they would never think of the cuspidors.
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When a green rookie named Jimmy Adams broke into the major leagues, his teammates exposed his naivete by convincing him that cuspidors were china vases and that he could light a cigar by unscrewing a light bulb and touching the wires.
Lodge, one of Detroit's most-respected mayors, wrote his memoirs in 1949, he reminisced fondly about the days when Detroit had been one of the hubs of the tobacco industry and tobacco use so prevalent that his favorite teacher kept a cuspidor under his desk and the governor of Michigan was a tobacco manufacturer.
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This is a hotel, moreover, with "wilting potted palms, brass cuspidors turning green, ratty wing chairs," a style the screenplay describes as "deco-gone-to-seed" (13).
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HAUNTED BY GUILT FOR HIS PART IN THE ACCIDENT, THE ONCE-GREAT LAWMAN AND PM PRACTITIONER HAS HIT ROCK BOTTOM, REDUCED TO EMPTYING CUSPIDORS IN SALOONS.
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Sleeping car porters tended smoggy smoking cars, swept up cigarette and cigar ashes, washed out cuspidors, and inhaled stale, smoky air for hours on end.
North of the Colour Line: Sleeping Car Porters and the Battle Against Jim Crow on Canadian Rails, 1880-1920
Wood as "trappers, hunters, miners, and prospectors, who eat, sing, chew, play poker, spit hard and true into burnished cuspidors, and seem free at any moment to tell you their plans, accept a cigarette, and applaud while the policeman chases another hobo off the roof."
Never be off the road
WHAT A HEART-BREAKING STORY: THE ONCE-GREAT MAN REDUCED TO EMPTYING CUSPIDORS IN SALOONS.
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