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[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 4 Nov. 3/1: What’s the matter? Hain’t you well [...] You look taller-colored as the dead, an’ your eyes is like burnt holes in a blanket.
at eyes like pissholes in the snow (n.) under eye, n.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] Williams was diked out to beat the band and was bound for a skirt party somewhere.
at to beat the band (adv.) under band, n.2
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] [A]fter feeding my face I blew down to Mory’s with a couple of heelers.
at blow, v.1
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] I must make a cold rush in that course or I’ll slip my trolley sure.
at cold, adj.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] They were trying to sew me up [...] and I wasn’t going to get my leg jerked, so I cut the game.
at cut the game (v.) under cut, v.2
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] Williams was diked out to beat the band and was bound for a skirt party somewhere.
at diked up, adj.1
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] [A]fter feeding my face I blew down to Mory’s with a couple of heelers.
at feed one’s face, v.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] We horsed Jones to death — he is easy fruit, that man.
at fruit, n.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] It is easy to express your dislike [...] without even bordering on profanity. He is ‘full of tacks’ or ‘prunes,’ ‘has wheels in his head, ’ is a ‘T. Willie,’ a ‘jay,’ a ‘shyster,’ a ‘bag of wind.
at full of tacks (adj.) under full of..., phr.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: [headline] yale college slang / [...] / You May be a ‘Fusser’ and ‘Full of Tacks’ and be ‘Dead Smooth Enough to Cut ice and ‘Have Wheels in Your Head’.
at fusser, n.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] We horsed Jones to death [...] and gave him the loud gee when he tried to get into our jeans.
at give someone the gee (v.) under gee, n.2
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] I cut the game, as I had a lot of grinding to do.
at grind, v.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] The New Haven boarding houses are ‘grub-joints,’ or ‘hash-houses’.
at grub-joint (n.) under grub, n.2
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] The New Haven boarding houses are ‘grub-joints,’ or ‘hash-houses’.
at hash-house, n.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] [A]fter feeding my face I blew down to Mory’s with a couple of heelers.
at heeler, n.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] We horsed Jones to death — he is easy fruit, that man.
at horse, v.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] [H]e [i.e. a tutor] gives me a pain in the neck.
at give someone a pain in the neck (v.) under pain (in the neck), n.1
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] We horsed Jones to death [...] and gave him the loud gee when he tried to get into our jeans.
at get into someone’s jeans (v.) under jeans, n.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] They were trying to sew me up [...] and I wasn’t going to get my leg jerked, so I cut the game.
at jerk someone’s leg (v.) under jerk, v.2
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] [of a college dormitory] Come around to my joint and feed this noon.
at joint, n.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] Charlie [...] was loaded for elephants, so we gave him the cold shake.
at loaded for bear (adj.) under loaded, adj.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] Had a long grouch last night and felt rocky a plenty.
at rocky, adj.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] I must make a cold rush in that course or I’ll slip my trolley sure.
at rush, n.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] They were trying to sew me up [...] and i wasn’t going to get my leg jerked, so I cut the game.
at sewed up, adj.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] It is easy to express your dislike [...] without even bordering on profanity. He is [...] a ‘T. Willie,’ a ‘jay,’ a ‘shyster,’ a ‘bag of wind.
at shyster, n.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] Top ‘pinch a skate’ is to arrive at a mild state of inebriation, and may be expressed by ‘getting skated,’ ‘buckling on your skates’ and other fanciful euphemisms.
at skate, n.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] Williams was diked out to beat the band and was bound for a skirt party somewhere.
at skirt party (n.) under skirt, n.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] I went at an easy pace and spieled along Chapel street to look at the queens.
at spiel, v.1
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] To split a man’s wood is to understand and agree with him.
at split someone’s wood (v.) under split, v.
[US] Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] ‘Swipes’ and ‘greasy grinds’ are the hoi polloi of the class.
at swipe, n.2
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