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[US] Corvallis Gaz.-Times (OR) 8 Nov. 3/3: The [Sat. Eve. Post] writer, in describing the present way girls have of wearing their hair with puffs covering their ears, calls them ‘cootie coops’. It makes one have a sort of crawly feeling to attend the movies, with these girls sitting all about you.
at cootie-coops (n.) under cootie, n.
[US] Corvallis Gaz.-Times (OR) 29 June 2/5: [advert] The candy kid in his ice cream suit.
at ice-cream suit (n.) under ice-cream, n.
[US] Corvallis Gaz.-Times (OR) 10 Apr. 2/2: We fancy Charlie will tell them to take their dinner party and stick it up the sewer.
at stick it in your ear! (excl.) under stick it!, excl.
[US] Corvallis Gaz.-Times (OR) 21 Apr. 6/6: [S]our dough biscuits, hotcakes and real cowboy coffee.
at cowboy coffee (n.) under cowboy, n.
[US] Corvallis Gaz.-Times (OR) 27 Mar. 1/2: ‘It’s horrible’ [...] ‘We were had seven ways from Sunday’.
at six ways from (next) Sunday under Sunday, n.1
[US] Corvallis Gaz.-Times (OR) 7 Apr. 2/4: OSSOM soon expanded from drunk driving into other youth safety issues, such as suicide seat belt use.
at suicide seat (n.) under suicide, n.
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