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Baltimore Sun (MD) 2 Apr. 1/4: ‘I would rather step right out and pull hemp’ [...] I had rather be hung than go to prison for life.at stretch (the) hemp (v.) under stretch, v.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 2 Apr. 1/4: ‘I would rather step right out and pull hemp’ [...] I had rather be hung than go to prison for life. Baltimore Sun (MD) 23 Feb. 4/1: Every child in the city [...] would have said to the President, like the children in the story, ‘bring on your bears’.at bring on your bears under bear, n.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 1 Oct. 1/7: ‘Pretty waiter girls’ are known in St Louis as ‘beer jerkers’. An effort is being made to suppress beer-jerking by city ordinance.at beer-jerker (n.) under beer, n.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 4 May 1/3: A Confidence Queen Indicted.— The Richmond [...] grand jury have indicted Bertha Hayman, the accomplished beauty, who has rendered herself so notorious in Canada and elsewhere.at confidence-queen, n.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 6 Oct. 1/3: ‘See her go past her like a shot off a shovel. Wow!’.at like a shot off a shovel (adv.) under shot, n.1
Baltimore Sun (MD) 15 Dec. 9/6: Its only was th’ speeches, just as sure as beans is beans?at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 20 Sept. 17/5: ‘Bluebacks,’ now out of date, was akin to ‘greenbacks.at bluebacks (n.) under blue, adj.1
Baltimore Sun (MD) 20 Sept. 17/5: ‘Jinglers’ [...] ‘shiners,’ and ‘sparklers’ betoken the physical delight [of high-value coins].at jingler, n.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 20 Sept. 17/6: The essential ‘needful’ and its sister ‘Ned’.at ned, n.1
Baltimore Sun (MD) 20 Sept. 17/6: ‘Shin plasters’ was originally applied to the continental money which pepreciated after the [American] Revolution until many folks thought it was good for nothing].at shinplaster (adj.) under shin, n.3
Baltimore Sun (MD) 20 Sept. 17/5: ‘Jinglers’ [...] ‘shiners,’ and ‘sparklers’ betoken the physical delight [of high-value coins].at sparkler, n.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 20 Sept. 17/5: ‘Threeswins’ are puzzling.at threeswins (n.) under three, adj.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 20 Sept. 17/5: ‘Thrum’ was the English 3 pence.at thrums, n.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 20 Feb. 13/1: The new defender of the supposedly dumb dora bases his conclusions on a survey [etc].at dumb dora (n.) under dumb, adj.1
Baltimore Sun (MD) 21 May 19/6: The Long Beacj handicap [...] proved that Mad Hatter isn’t such a much as a handicap horse.at such-a-much, adj.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 15 Aug. 6/6: Brown, superintendant of Hagan’s one time force of ‘door shakers’ (the underworld parlance for special police).at door shaker (n.) under door, n.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 26 Feb. 119/3: ‘One of the boys called me a silly as’.at silly-arse (n.) under silly, adj.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 30 Oct. 9/6: ‘Studdy’ Looney decided to ‘organize’ the ashwagon drivers.at studdy, n.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 14 May 10/4: Snake in the grass — a looking glass.at snake in the grass, n.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 3 Nov. 3/1: They claimed fifty-two sewats ‘sure shots’ ansd twenty-sic more in the ‘outside chance’ category.at sure-shot (adj.) under sure, adj.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 11 Aug. 4/6: ‘Dolfuss.’ ‘The swine,’ roared Swivel-Eye.at swivel-eye, n.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 5 Aug. 20/1: A close and argumentative play that found Manager Burleigh grimes being tin-canned out of the pastime.at tin-can, v.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 5 Aug. 97/1: [cartoon caption] ‘Hullo, Tuffy’s Tavern, where the heels steal for a meal! Scroungy the manager speakin’’.at scroungy, adj.
Baltimore Sun (MD) 22 June Magazine 6/5: Jackson . . . good guy.at Jackson, n.3
Baltimore Sun (MD) 27 Jan. 15/1: Ten thousand students seized the Madrid radio [...] to broadcast complaints against strongarm tactics used to break up their demonstrations.at strong-arm, adj.
Baltimore Sun (MD) Sun. Mag. 4 Dec. 9/1: Bugsy Mitchell was a dinglebit, a skiz who was with it all the way.at all the way, adv.
Baltimore Sun (MD) Sun. Mag. 4 Dec. 9/3: The C.P.B. that Twitter gave the boy when he bugged (approached, annoyed, interrupted her) was the Certified Pure Bull. [...] you cool the one you love, and the rougher you chill him the better he likes it.at C.P.B., n.
Baltimore Sun (MD) Sun. Mag. 4 Dec. 9/3: The C.P.B. that Twitter gave the boy when he bugged (approached, annoyed, interrupted her) was the Certified Pure Bull. [...] you cool the one you love, and the rougher you chill him the better he likes it.at chill (for) (v.) under chill, v.2
Baltimore Sun (MD) Sun. Mag. 4 Dec. 9/3: Cool like a moose means all wrong, no good, and it applies to everything from dull parties and algebra to low heels and referees [...] overly fussy chaperones.at cool like a moose (adj.) under cool, adj.
Baltimore Sun (MD) Sun. Mag. 4 Dec. 9/1: Bugsy Mitchell was a dinglebit, a skiz who was with it all the way.at dinglebit (n.) under dingle, n.2
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