free-and-easy

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English

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Adjective

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free-and-easy (comparative more free-and-easy, superlative most free-and-easy)

  1. Alternative form of free and easy

Noun

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free-and-easy (plural free-and-easies)

  1. Alternative form of free and easy
    • 1850 September 14, [Charles Dickens], “Three “Detective” Anecdotes”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal., volume I, number 25, London: Office, [], →OCLC, section I (The Pair of Gloves), pages 577–578:
      ‘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! []