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 O.H.M.S.O. P. Riot (Old Price Riot). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
O.K.
 
A telegraphic symbol for “All right” (orl korrect, a Sir William Curtis’s or Ar’temus Ward’s way of spelling “all correct”).   1
 


 O.H.M.S.O. P. Riot (Old Price Riot). 

 
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