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From Dictionary of Banking and Finance:
Disciplinary --- Diversification
Bond & Co. have recently added a cat o' nine tails to their succesful line of cane products.
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Ed: From the Concise Oxford
Commune companion – fellow dropout
Coney conformance – large toothed
Exaltation exchange – swop priest for lama
Governess gram – severe lady administering discipline to party goer
Gross grummet – Brobdingnagian borehole
Hip Hobbit – Bilbo with guitar and joint, sans handkerchief
Mako man – debt collector
Miniature misanthrope – poison dwarf
Needless neighbourhood – Beverley Hills
Oppugn orchitis – going for the red ball
Penance penthouse – rooftop lock-up
Press pretence – public interest campaign by tabloid paper
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enthusiast
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from the Pocket Oxford Dictionary (7th edition, 1984)
sleeper slouch -- bad posture upon waking
folk force -- the power of the people
cream crime -- feline felony
turncoat twitter -- the chatter of a traitor turned stool-pigeon
shy signal -- batted eyelashes?
loveless lump -- my ex
fauna fellowship -- pride of lions, etc. (cross-threading)
And I learned something: the name of the game I know as pick-up-sticks or Mikado is spillikins - how cute is that!
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American heritage: New College Edition
mammy mandate
Fetch the firewood, Billy Junior, or fetch me a switch.
Madam Madwort
What I call any of the Awad ladies (behind their backs) who misses the point of my diamond-studded wit and takes offense at my well-intended remarks.
martial law mash
The national dance of Nigeria.
A sad and deadly dance. May God above help the innocent and good among these people, we apparently can't.
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OED
go go
Dance form of the 1970s
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Faldage, you have an OED? I am green with envy....Someday.... 
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richmond english dictionary
gibberish -- gipsy - fortuneteller
morthia -- mot - "it won't hurt"
macaw -- magistrate -??
phrase -- picket - AWADtalk
antic -- ape - definitely all politicians you don't like :)
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macaw -- magistrate -?? Law-parroting judge?
"The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extrodinarily Literate"
Nexus - Nyctalopia = blind bondsman
Prolix - Pusillanimous = tediously wordy coward
Disconsolate - Dissentient = Unhappy majority
I have used the actual definitions as a clue to the made up meaning.
Forthwith - Fulsome = too much of a good thging (is not enough!)
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The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, third edition
fearful fellator - a short-throated person
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macaw--magistrate: a judge who parrots the law
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