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[US] Marion Star (OH) 6 Aug. 2/4: He supplied the stuff to thirteen passers.
at passer, n.
[US] Marion Star (OH) 6 Aug. 2/4: The women who do the counting are careful [...] I have never heard of their making a mistake even of a single sheet.
at sheet, n.
[US] Marion Star (OH) 6 Aug. 2/4: He supplied the stuff [i.e. counterfeit notes] to thirteen passers.
at stuff, n.
[US] Marion Star (OH) 26 Sept. 7/7: ‘It [i.e. chatter] isn’t needed any more than a toad needs a side pocket’.
at side-pocket, n.
[US] Marion Star (OH) 3 Apr. 17/1: The Narcotics Squad [...] the ‘Coke Squad’ as it is best known.
at coke squad (n.) under coke, n.1
[US] Marion Star (OH) 3 Apr. 17/5: One of the prisoners, a confirmed ‘cokie,’ who could not live without his snowflakes.
at cokie, n.
[US] Marion Star (OH) 3 Apr. 17/3: They have gotten $10 from Tombs prisoners for a deck that sells on the street for fifty cents.
at deck, n.4
[US] Marion Star (OH) 3 Apr. 17/1: ‘Runners’ or ‘carriers’ for the big and little [drug] vendors had spread over the city.
at runner, n.
[US] Marion Star (OH) 3 Apr. 17/6: Heroin is sometimes called ‘scat’ or ‘H’.
at scat, n.2
[US] Marion Star (OH) 3 Apr. 17/6: We can tell ‘coke’ or heroin fiends [...] We call them ‘twitchers’ due to their constant twitching or hitching of their shoulders [...] their eyes are wild and stary.
at twitcher, n.2
[US] Marion Star (OH) 12 Oct. 56/2: Texas Cattle Operations Puny by Aussie Standard. ‘As to the Texan skiters (boasters) we reckon our blokes would put it over them every time’.
at skiter, n.
[US] Marion Star (OH) 28 Nov. 5/6: ‘ told him I’d whale the living daylights outen him’.
at whale the — out of someone (v.) under whale, v.1
[US] Marion Star (OH) 27 Dec. 6/6: Turn off a clogged artery, shoot down a sidestreet — kerplump — into the water.
at kerplump! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Marion Star (OH) 12 jan. 6/2: It’s a lead pipe cinch that some of the decisions are going to be unpopular.
at lead-pipe cinch (n.) under lead, n.
[US] Marion Star (OH) 20 Sept. 1/7: ‘They (straight kids) were drags, boring’.
at drag, n.1
[US] Marion Star (OH) 20 Oct. 8/1: Marion Public Library [...] employees select material foir the shut-ins, and Guild members make the deliveries.
at shut-in (n.) under shut, v.
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