Bash alias help

[Kirk McElhearn]

I have the following alias for tcsh:

alias dict ³curl -s dict://dict.org/d:\! <#_msocom_1>  :1 | egrep -v
 '^22.*|^250.*|^150.*'"

I want to rewrite this for bash, but, as far as I understand, \! doesn't
work in bash aliases. Does anyone out there who is a bash expert know if
this is correct? If so, how can I get this to work in bash?
 
 
Kirk
 
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