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The Barkeep Stories choose

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[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 186: ‘I never see wan o’ dem gabby guys dat was any ’count, anyhow’.
at no-account, adj.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 17: ‘[H]e’s been agin de booze purty strong fer de las’ week and las’ night he was near due t’have de Brooklyn boys].
at against, prep.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 83: De pup cracks [...] ‘Well, wot d’ you t’ink you’ll do wid de mare to-day?’ kickin’ me in de shins at de same time. ‘I don’t see how I kin lose,’ says I. ‘I t’ink it’s an airtight’ .
at airtight, adj.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 49: ‘[W]hedder you calls it hipnytism er de plain old conalorum. I kinder t’ink you’re stringin’ me’.
at -alorum, sfx
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 149: ‘I put dem bad clo’se I got from de tailor shop de odder day in me grip’.
at bad, adj.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 98: ‘’Bout all you know is to t’row some poor guy dat ain’t got nottin’ in de bandhouse’.
at bandhouse, n.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 14: ‘I been maced round here an’ dubbed round here an’ had de hooks t’run into me round here till I’m daffy!’.
at double-bank, v.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 133: ‘I’ll tell him dat I never was down below meself on ’count o’ bein’ a square guy all me life, but dat I know a few o’ me fr’ens dat was over de road’.
at down below, n.2
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 116: ‘I ain’t workin’ de odder evenin’ on account o’ me mitt not havin’ rounded to from de bloomer I made in de road race’.
at bloomer, n.2
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 149: ‘[H]e wants to take me acrost de lake dat ev’nin’ to annoder hotel w’ere dere was goin’ to be a blow-out’.
at blow-out, n.1
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 112: ‘An’ de blow-off is always de same. Neider wan o’ dem ever wins dc argument’.
at blow off, n.2
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 91: ‘Wot was dey layin’ again Chicago?’ ‘Dey don’t make no book on dem ball games’.
at book, n.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 10: ‘[He] looks like he needs a booze pretty bad’.
at booze, n.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 59: ‘You was graftin’? Booze-graftin’?’ ‘Naw — not booze graftin’’.
at booze grafter (n.) under booze, n.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 39: ‘It don’t do fer a guy dat’s boozed t’ have much dealin’s wid dem kind o’ guys [i.e. magicians’.
at boozed, adj.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 41: [D]em boozers an’ hobos round here dat don’t hardly knows w’at’s de diff’rence between de stars an’ stripes an’ any odder flag.
at boozer, n.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 17: ‘[H]e’s been agin de booze purty strong fer de las’ week and las’ night he was near due t’have de Brooklyn boys.
at Brooklyn boys, n.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 163: [A] lot o’ de Dutch all in a bunch togedder like Brown’s cows.
at all together like Brown’s cows (adj.) under Brown’s cows, n.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 17: ‘[D]en I t’ink he’s a mark dat’s broke out o’ some bughouse. He was de wildes’ lookin’ guy ever I see’.
at bughouse, n.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 79: ‘If I don't stand fer as purty a bit o’ de bunk as ever was framed up I hope de coppers ’ll close de joint’.
at bunk, n.2
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 10: ‘De next hobo dat maces me [...] is liable to have t’ duck away from a cannon’.
at cannon, n.1
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 28: ‘Now dere ain’t hardly as much as ten cents in de gang, much less a ten case note’.
at case, n.4
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 28: ‘I ain’t got nothin’ less den a century note an’ don’t want ter break it here’.
at century, n.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 11: ‘Fer a wonder he was dere wid some change himself’.
at change, n.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 93: ‘You’d t’ink by de way he pulls fer de guy to win dat he was down on him fer a chunk that’d make Riley Grannan look like a piker’.
at chunk, n.1
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 137: ‘I got de goods, d’ you understan’? But it’s all in coarse currency an’ I’m kinder scared t’ change it’.
at coarse, adj.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 22: ‘Muggins finally cops him on de point o’ de jaw’.
at cop, v.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 21: ‘[F]inally Muggins cracks dat he’d like t’ take a lesson or two from somebody dat knowed de game’.
at crack, v.1
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 35: De guy springs a big forty-four an’ cuts loose wid it at de ’lectric light.
at cut loose, v.
[US] F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 151: ‘Dthis bottle’s phwat thim race thrack fellys calls a dead wan.’ [...] ‘Dat shows you de way de graft is. De copper’s bottle is allus de first one dat gets emptied’.
at dead one, n.
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