subs. (colloquial).—The custom. AS PER USUAL = as usual: pleonastic.

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  1589.  PUTTENHAM, Art of English Poesie, 72. The staffe of seuen verses hath seuen proportions, whereof one onely is THE VSUALL of our vulgar.

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  1884.  MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, in Punch, 11 Oct., ‘’Arry at a Political Pic-nic.’

                    Bin playing some dark little game?
I’m keeping mine hup as PER USUAL.

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