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[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 10 July 3/1: This is quite an advantage for the poorer classes who take the adobe dollar for their pay.
at adobe dollar (n.) under adobe, adj.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 22 Sept. 4/1: Two mexicans [...] were up yesterday [...] to answer to the charge of drunkenness, and not being able to prove an alibi, were given five days each in the jag parlors of the city bastile.
at jag parlor (n.) under jag, n.1
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 11 Dec. 18/4: It was once the regal skypiece of an Arab potentate.
at sky-piece (n.) under sky, n.1
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 13 May 8: How come steaks and onions, my Sissy?
at sis, n.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 5 Mar. 19/3: Other sketches to be heard are ‘Hot Shorts,’ a story of car thieves.
at on the hot shorts under short, n.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 25 Feb. 9: [photo caption] M.M. Garrett getting ready to ride the shotgun seat next to driver, Frank Clark.
at shotgun, n.3
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 4 Dec. 45/5: Sydney is acciused by Melbourne of being over-Americanized. Sydney calls her accuser ‘Smellbourne’.
at Smellbourne, n.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 20 Aug. 24/4: That scream-sheet expose of ‘The Morrison Story’ [...] is a disgrace to Arizona journalism.
at scream sheet (n.) under sheet, n.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 19 Jan. 5/2: Brody [...] made his decision to give away what he calls a $25 million inheritance while ‘I was tripped out on drugs’.
at tripped-out, adj.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 6 Apr. 68/6: In bad weather Tucson residents go kerthud into endless chuckholes and in better weather they go ker-bump over these same raised chuckholes.
at kerbump! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 6 Apr. 68/6: In bad weather Tucson residents go kerthud into endless chuckholes and in better weather they go ker-bump over these same raised chuckholes.
at kerthud! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 2 Aug. 10/3: His own personal personal bodyguards — two swivel-eyed men who stood on either side of him.
at swivel-eyed, adj.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) Youth Beat 26 Dec. 8/3: Crush: good, great, terrific.
at crush, adj.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) Youth Beat 26 Dec. 8/3: Cut: Hairdo.
at cut, n.1
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) Youth Beat 26 Dec. 8/3: Dime: To inform, to squeal, to rat.
at dime, v.1
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) Youth Beat 26 Dec. 8/3: Flex: To leave, to beat a retreat.
at flex, v.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) Youth Beat 26 Dec. 8/4: Illing: Getting wild!
at illing, adj.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) Youth Beat 26 Dec. 8/4: Kick: To flex. Let’s kick this scene.
at kick, v.1
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) Youth Beat 26 Dec. 8/4: Stupid: Crush. Def. Fresh. As good as it gets.
at stupid, adj.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) Youth Beat 26 Dec. 8/4: Trouper: Member of the posse. He who hangs out.
at trooper, n.1
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) Youth Beat 26 Dec. 8/4: Zoo: Street corner.
at zoo, n.1
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 7 Feb. 2F/3: With the advent of the car, a whole new field of shystering came about called ‘ambulance chasing’.
at ambulance-chasing (n.) under ambulance-chaser, n.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 19 Aug. 31/1: Guitarist and singer [...] packaage and sell [...] toothbrushes, flashlights [...] sweat rags.
at sweat rag (n.) under sweat, n.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 4 Oct. 10/5: You said in as offhand a manner as you could muster, ‘It’s snowing down south’.
at snowing down south!, excl.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 17 Apr. 21/4: There aren’t any skeevy things about God — he is totally good.
at skeevy (adj.) under skeeve, n.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 12 July D3/1: Every office has a brown-noser, someone who sucks up to his or her boss.
at brown-noser, n.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 10 Jan. E1/1: No gears means no shifting, but riders of fixies can never just stop pedaling.
at fixie, n.
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 19 Dec. A5/1: The 200 blocks of East Eight Street had 357 tags cleaned up.
at tag, n.3
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 7 June A009/3: He would have discovered that the hauling data was not bullcorn.
at bullcorn (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] Arizona Dly Star (Tucson, AZ) 22 June B008/4: ‘I’ve really struggled [...] But I’ll give it my best shot’.
at one’s best shot (n.) under shot, n.1
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