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[US] Times (Munster, IN) 2 Apr. 4/2: Some of them think Taft has been horswaggled. Nix. Bill knows a hornswaggle by heart and can juggle him without a net.
at hornswoggle, n.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 9 June 9/1: In the fifth round of a vicious hel-snorting fight [...] Tremblay [...] tossed in the sponge.
at snorting, adj.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 14 Oct. 24/3: She [...] didn’t share the fear [...] that such a rigorous programme would render hus husband [...] ‘slug nutty’ or ‘punch goofy’.
at slug-nutty (adj.) under slug, n.2
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 31 Oct. 44/4: The proper ideophonics representing ‘Zowie!’ ‘Bam!’ and ‘Squiff!’.
at zowie!, excl.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 26 Aug. 12/2: A refreshing stock of non-vitriolic insults enlivens the bubbler’s [i.e. Bing Crosby] cheese show.
at cheesy, adj.2
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 26 Aug. 12/2: It is too much like Babbitt’s paradise of goo and gush.
at goo, n.1
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 19 Jan. 13/1: Competiton would be calculated to sky-hoot my income.
at sky hoot (v.) under sky, n.1
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 4 Nov. 8/7: Seeing as i don’t pay taxes [...] it’s no skin off my teeth.
at no skin off one’s nose under skin, n.1
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 19 Jan. 56/1: Slang keeps changing to keep up [...] ‘Aced Out— Fooled, exhausted.
at ace, v.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 19 Jan. 56/1: Slang keeps changing to keep up [...] ‘Bear’ — Ugly girl.
at bear, n.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 19 Jan. 56/1: Slang keeps changing to keep up [...] ‘BB’ — Bird-brain.
at birdbrain (n.) under bird, n.1
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 19 Jan. 56/1: Slang keeps changing to keep up [...] ‘Cootie rack’ — Comb.
at cootie-rack (n.) under cootie, n.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 19 Jan. 56/1: Slang keeps changing to keep up [...] ‘Dungeon’ — school.
at dungeon, n.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 19 Jan. 56/1: Slang keeps changing to keep up [...] ‘Earth-Pads’ — shoes.
at earth pads (n.) under earth, n.3
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 19 Jan. 56/1: Slang keeps changing to keep up [...] ‘Psyched out— I’m psyched out — I’m okay mentally.
at psych (out) (v.) under psych, v.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 19 Jan. 56/1: Slang keeps changing to keep up [...] ‘Tiger or Tigress’ — Good-looking boy or girl.
at tiger, n.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 1 Mar. 10/5: An ad that promised to teach them enough conversational French to dazzle their suet-headed escorts.
at suet-headed, adj.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 13 June 1/6: The ‘skids’ congregate [and] wait for someone to come up with a bottle of wine.
at skid, n.2
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 13 June 1/6: Vacant strip houses are sleeping quarters for some of those who ‘hit the skids’.
at hit the skids (v.) under skids, n.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 12 June 6/2: 139 [planes] were reported lost of Florida [...] Those are a lot of planes to go kerplop.
at kerplop! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 19 Mar. 15/1: The ultramodern computerized baggage system went kerflunk! kerflooey!
at kerflunk! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 31 Jan. A3/1: I don’t want to come in your home and snatch your cowboy killer from your lips as you [...] light up.
at cowboy killer (n.) under cowboy, n.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 13 Jan. PA4/1: One of the men was heavyset and the other was ‘snaggle tooth’ with ‘teeth clearly out of place’.
at snaggle-tooth, n.
[US] Times (Munster, IN) 6 Oct. A9/4: ‘Jamilia ain’t gonna bust a grape in a food fight’.
at couldn’t bust a grape... (v.) under bust a grape, v.
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