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[US] Daily Jrnl (Salem, OR) 26 July 1/3: All the floating population which invades the grain fields [...] during harvest time may be divided into [...] whiteliners, yegs, dingbats and [...] ‘dynos’. The Weary Willies, Dusty Rohoades [...] of comic book fame represent approximately the class of whiteliners [...] the whiteliner will not converse with the dingbat.
at whiteliner (n.) under white, adj.
[US] Daily Jrnl (Salem, OR) 28 Mar. 2/3: The nickel-grabber alone will work.
at nickel snatcher (n.) under nickel, n.
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