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[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 29 Apr. 5/4: It began with the coming of Oscar Wilde [...] Then came the eccentricities of the drama and song, and later the long hairs of music and literature.
at longhair, n.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 11 July 3/1: [advert] My Anti-Syph treatment is purely a vegetable formula which does the work thoroughly.
at syph, n.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 10 Sept. 9/2: As paving blocks on the road to Sleepville, insomnia victims try [...] a long brisk walk.
at sleepville (n.) under sleep, n.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 2 Jan. 6/4: He [...] gets his rifle and cannon calibers, and estimates skew-jawed.
at skew-jawed, adj.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 14 Feb. 6/4: Our old friend Frank Day has taken another shot at the publishers of this paper.
at take a shot (at) (v.) under shot, n.1
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 25 Dec. 17/1: From ‘sob’ reporters and false alarms [etc].
at sob-reporter (n.) under sob, n.1
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 3 Sept. 14/6: ‘He’s so mean [...] he wouldn’t give a drownin’ feller a drink’.
at so mean... under mean, adj.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 31 Jan. 12/7: The side street ‘clip joints’ where the lowest dregs of humanity reap a bitter harvest.
at clip-joint, n.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 12 Apr. 26/4: The ker-blump of, say, 200 pounds of suet hitting the resined deck is music to my ears.
at kerblump! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 22 Sept. 24: An elevator jockey frowns / On puns concerning ups and downs.
at elevator jockey (n.) under elevator, n.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 13 mar. 15/1: He ran slab-dab into a fire in a hollow of one of the hills.
at slap-dab, adv.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 18 May 4/4: When they out you in that six-foot bungalow, you’re through and that’s that.
at six-foot bungalow (n.) under six, adj.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 3 July 30/2: ‘Hey, poop for brains, is that your bleeping truck??!!’.
at bleeping, adj.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 3 July 30/2: ‘Hey, poop for brains, is that your bleeping truck??!!’.
at shit-for-brains, n.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 2 July 24/1: Wagoner [...] introduced a prearranged deck of cards kinto the game. She was charged with bunco steering.
at bunco-steering (n.) under bunco, n.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 26 Sept. 1K/1: I definitely do carbo-load, but I don’t use the depletion phase,’ he said referring to the initial low-carbohydrate diet.
at carbo-load, v.
[US] (con. 1965) Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 13 Apr. 30/1: ‘Hersey called Knopf the sworn enemy of [...] hypocrites and shoddyites’.
at shoddyite (n.) under shoddy, adj.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 8 Feb. 10/1: Success [...] will require attending to the social misery that turns kids knto skullcrackers.
at skull-cracker (n.) under skull, n.1
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 26 may 43/2: Cubs coach Billy Williams went ballistic. then ther was the Cubs’ ‘skull doctor’ [etc].
at skull doctor (n.) under skull, n.1
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 20 Jan. 56/1: [crossword puzzle clue] 14. Cop some z’s.
at cop some Z’s (v.) under z, n.1
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 4 May 23/1: ‘I really (slobber, slobber, slobber) like you man,’ he lied.
at slobber, v.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 12 Feb. 22/1: Most people, especially those at university, seemed to have a side hustle.
at side hustle (n.) under side, adj.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 20 Apr. A6/4: ‘I’m just trying to make sure I ain’t in no water, man [...] I ain’t did shit’.
at hot water, n.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 4 Dec. A6/2: One man spent more than seven consecutive years in solitary.
at solitary, n.
[US] Star Trib. (Minneapolis, MN) 8 Oct. E16/1: ‘I you have to hit the brakes so hard [...] a window breaks, it’s no skin off my nose’.
at no skin off one’s nose under skin, n.1
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