bilgewater
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- I went up to my neck in bilgewater on the wreck and managed to save my passport and the manuscript of my autobiography.
- Unfortunately, Lillian Hellman only manages to turn bile into bilgewater.
- All sorts of colleges every year do this to me, salt water, fresh water and bilgewater colleges, and I have had to gaze on some of the most god-awful female mugs in this broad .