about east

adverb

OK; all right; in a proper manner.

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adverbabout east (not comparable)
  1. New EnglandUSnot comparableslangOK; all right; in a proper manner.

    I went into the dining-room, and sot down afore a plate that had my name writ on a card onto it; and I did walk into the beef and 'taters and things about east.

    1884, Hiram Bigelow, Family Companion, letter, quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 198
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