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free-and-easy

adjective more free-and-easy · most free-and-easy

  1. alternative Alternative form of free and easy He was […] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the fire-dogs in the common room, […]

noun free-and-easies

  1. alternative Alternative form of free and easy ‘Then, perhaps,’ says I, taking the gloves out of my pocket, ‘you can tell me who cleaned this pair of gloves? It’s a rum story,’ I says. ‘I was dining over at Lambeth, the other day, at a free-and-easy—quite promiscuous—with a public company—when some gentleman, he left these gloves behind him![…]’

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@misc{free_and_easy_2026,
  title = {free-and-easy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/free-and-easy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}