also galloot and geeloot, subs. (general).—A man (sometimes in contempt); also (in America) a worthless fellow (or thing, see quot. 1888); a rowdy; a CAD (q.v.).

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  1834.  MARRYAT, Jacob Faithful, ch. xxxiv. Four greater GALLOOTS were never picked up, but never mind that.

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  1869.  S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’) The Innocents at Home, p. 22. He could lam any GALOOT of his inches in America.

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  1871.  JOHN HAY, ‘Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle,’ in Pike County Ballads.

        ‘I ’ll hold her nozzle agin the bank
  Till the last GALOOT ’s ashore.’

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  1885.  The Saturday Review, Feb. 7, p. 167. ‘I’ll never draw a revolver on a man again as long as I live.’… ‘Guess I’ll go for the GALOOT with a two-scatter shoot-gun.’

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  1888.  New York Tribune, May 16. It is better to have a Carrot for a President than a dead beat for a son-in-law. In this way we again score a live beat on the GALOOT.

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  1892.  R. L. STEVENSON and L. OSBOURNE, The Wrecker, p. 137. ‘My dear boy, I may be a GALOOT about literature, but you’ll always be an outsider in business.

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  ON THE GAY GALOOT, adv. phr. (common).—On the spree.

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  1892.  MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, p. 3. I’m off ON THE GAY GALOOT somewheres.

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