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[US] Odessa American (TX) 25 Feb. 5-D: Stamps needed under the new set-up for certain tems are: [...] Mount Shasta Grass, One Orange Book — Giggle Gas, One Maroon Book.
at giggle gas (n.) under giggle, adj.
[US] Odessa American (TX) 30 Oct. 2/6: ‘We hope that the conferees give the bill and a good shaking and shake out the fleas’.
at shake the fleas out of one’s pants (v.) under shake, v.
[US] Odessa American (TX) 24 Oct. 40/6: ‘Sweathog used to be [...] someone’s old lady. You know, his wife or girlfriend’.
at sweat hog (n.) under sweat, n.
[US] Odessa American (TX) 24 Oct. 40/6: ‘Everybody that’s out hustling for something is a sweathog’.
at sweat hog (n.) under sweat, n.
[US] Odessa American (TX) 6 Nov. 9/4: Hildebrand testified about conversations [...] on ‘philosophical aspects if you will of thrown-down guns, or throw-down marijuana or throw-down anything’.
at throw-down, n.
[US] Odessa American (TX) 11 Jan. 17/4: Texas high school athletes won’t be able to imitate the taunting and showboating antics the University of Miami displayed.
at showboating (n.) under showboat, v.
[US] Odessa American (TX) 17 Nov. 24/2: The Windy City, Chicago, is all that.
at all that, adj.
[US] Odessa American (TX) 17 Nov. 24/2: The Windy City, Chicago, is all that.
at Windy City, n.
[US] Odessa American (TX) 17 Nov. 24/2: Not that I’m jone-ing New York City.
at jone, v.
[US] Odessa American (TX) 17 Nov. 24/2: Sin Vity, Las Vegas — complete with the lights, the shows, the gambling.
at Sin City (n.) under sin, n.
[US] Odessa American (TX) 11 Sept. B3/3: Paul was warning the people that he was not going to be looking for those who thought they were a such-a-much.
at such-a-much, adj.
[US] Odessa American (TX) 28 Mar. C3/1: Once a proud Fort Worth landmark [...] today looks like something the cat dragged in.
at something the cat (has) brought in (n.) under something, n.
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