🔴 A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)
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All Serene - an ejaculation of acquiescence. Some years back a popular street cry. With or without application to actual fact, the words all serene were bawled from morning to night without any reference to the serenity of the unfortunate hearers.—See SERENE

- John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

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