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[US] Eve. World (NY) 27 July 2/5: So he piked right off to Payne as soon as he reached town.
at pike, v.1
[US] Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/3: Charlie’s head came to be filled by one idea [...] to ‘hold up’ stage coaches; to capture pretty girls; in short to become famous as the boldest, baddest man in the wide wild world .
at bad, adj.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: When a man is drunk as a lord [he] will do all sorts of razzle-dazzle things.
at razzle-dazzle, adj.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: Razzle-dazzle means a good old-fashioned drunk [...] when a man is on a lark he is razzle-dazzled.
at razzle-dazzle, n.
[US] Eve. World (N.Y.) 1 Mar. 1/1: I imbibed a little too much razzle-dazzle juice [...] I was razzle-dazzled.
at razzle-dazzle (juice) (n.) under razzle-dazzle, n.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: When you are introduced to a man and he steals your watch, he razzle-dazzles you.
at razzle-dazzle, v.
[US] (con. 1860s) Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: I first heard ‘razzle-dazzle’ about thrirty years ago as a gag by [...] an Irish comedian [...] [he] played the lover and fooled the ‘ould man’ who he said he had razzle-dazzled.
at razzle-dazzle, v.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: There is no razzle-dazzling in this office [...] However, if a man gets so tangled up that he does not know what he is doing, he is razzle-dazzled.
at razzle-dazzle, v.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: There is no razzle-dazzling in this office [...] However, if a man gets so tangled up that he does not know what he is doing, he is razzle-dazzled.
at razzle-dazzled, adj.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: Razzle-dazzle means a good old-fashioned drunk [...] when a man is on a lark he is razzle-dazzled.
at razzle-dazzled, adj.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 29 July 1/4: Metropolitan ‘L’ Road Suits [...] offers made by the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad.
at el, n.1
[US] Eve. World (NY) 20 Apr. 2/4: Old Homeboy — [...] Excuse me to-night: I am such a foolish old homebody.
at homeboy, n.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: People get the razoo or razzle-dazzle when they have been having too good a time.
at get the (grand) razz (v.) under razz, n.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: It is like a razoo. People get the razoo or razzle-dazzle when they have been having a good time.
at razzle, n.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: When one has been out all night, painting the town red [...] he is apt to feel ‘rocky’ when he gets homwe — in other words he is razzle-dazzled.
at rocky, adj.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 4 Aug. n.p.: Charged the Wrong Clubber. Policeman Mahoney Instead of Sullican will Stand Trial.
at clubber, n.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 9 Aug. 2/5: He plaintively asked for the red-eye. ‘No, old man,’ said the bookie, ’you’d better sober up on a nice, cool beer’.
at red-eye, n.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 24 July 2/5: So hurry up your cakes as the boy once said to the baker.
at hurry up the cakes (v.) under cake, n.1
[US] Eve. World (NY) 3 July 2/2: That’s it — that’s the checker! chuckled the good man as he rubbed his hands together.
at checker, the, n.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 18 Dec. 4/3: Jim was chirkyas you please.
at chirk, adj.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 12 July 3/5: Several gangs that made a business of drugging and robbing immigrants have been caught [...] The police were enabled to arraign the ‘man catchers’ captured with the ‘knockout’ drops in their possession.
at knockout drops, n.
[US] N.Y. Eve. World 13 May n.p.: A novelty in dancing [...] will be seen [...] at Herrmann’s Theatre next week. It is called the ‘Koota-Koota,’ whatever that may mean, and is danced by Avita, an English character actress, who is said to have performed it before the Rajah during her visit to the East Indies.
at hootchy-kootchy, n.
[US] Eve. World (N.Y.) 22 Oct. 5/2: Endurance Piano-Playing. Novel match now in progress between two ‘ivory-pounders’.
at ivory-pounder (n.) under ivory, n.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 19 Dec. 4/6: It will not matter if it is sometimes just a little apparent [...] that she wears the trousers.
at wear the trousers (v.) under trouser, n.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 1 July 5/1: The Parisian illusionist [...] will do his ‘appearing and disappearing’ act.
at do a/the disappearing act (v.) under disappearing act, n.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 12 Jan. 3/5: I’m going to give you the all-firedest licking you ever got.
at all-fired, adj.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 12 Jan. 5/2: The notorious Tip Little, the confidence and badger game man, the husband of Belle Litttle and companion of Molly Hask, the badger queen of the this city.
at badger-man (n.) under badger, n.1
[US] Eve. World (NY) 7 July 5/2: The actress received a present of a burro [...] alias a Rocky Mountain canary bird.
at Rocky Mountain canary (bird), n.
[US] Eve. World (NY) 15 Dec. 4/2: The Kibosh and the Skewgee. This thing of skewgeeing cheques is getting to be too miscellaneous. Alderman Parks put the skewgee on a check for $4000 [...] and, owing to the skewgee, the drawee could not get the filthee.
at filthy, n.1
[US] Eve. World (NY) 12 Jan. 5/2: The notorious Tip Little, the confidence and badger game man, the husband of Belle Litttle and companion of Molly Hask, the badger queen of the this city.
at queen, n.
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