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[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 20 Mar. 1/3: Winnemucca, the War Chief was [...] rtigged out in a ring-streaked blanket overcoat and a bell-teazer plug hat.
at bell-teazer (n.) under bell, n.1
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 9 May 12/4: [advert] Our Kola Wine Braces up Tired, Weak and Lame Brains [...] in fact (it will almost clothe a skeleton).
at lamebrain, n.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 14 Sept. 14/5: The liquor is furnished by a ‘booze-runner’. He wears a belt similar to a cartridge belt, but has it loaded with bottles of beer and champagne.
at booze runner (n.) under booze, n.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 28 Apr. 32/6: A man gets two or three times as much coin — always on the fritz.
at on the fritz (adj.) under fritz, n.2
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 28 Apr. 32/5: A lot of fresh kids stood around and give me the laugh.
at give someone the laugh (v.) under laugh, n.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 28 Apr. 32/5: Is she goin’ to wear ’em bloomers? Not on your facial expression!
at not on your tintype, phr.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 28 Apr. 32/5: I’m [...] the sassiest club boy in the whole push.
at push, n.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 28 Apr. 32/5: She’s got the dough saved up to buy a wheel.
at wheel, n.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 11 Aug. 26/3: An underworld figure who goes to a cold meat party.
at cold meat party (n.) under cold meat, n.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 11 Aug. 26/3: [cartoon caption] The guy must be loca da poco or dingswizzled.
at dingswizzled, adj.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 11 Aug. 26/3: This here meatball [...] was woofing and beating his gums about this fem he had for me.
at femme, n.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 11 Aug. 26/3: I went up to his place just to have me a gander.
at gander, n.3
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 11 Aug. 26/3: The kissoff was that when the dish comes in, she’s no wow at all.
at kiss-off, n.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 11 Aug. 26/3: He wants me to be a patsy for peddlin’ his needle candy.
at needle candy (n.) under needle, n.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 11 Aug. 26/3: The clamor over the Dictionary of American Slang [...] whether it’s a Tijuana Bible (a pornographic item) or a real gasser (an exceptional work).
at Tijuana bible (n.) under Tijuana, adj.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 11 Aug. 26/3: The difference between a gambler who whacks up (divides his winnings) and one who whacks out (goes broke).
at whack up, v.2
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 11 Aug. 26/3: This here meatball [...] was woofing and beating his gums about this fem he had for me.
at woof, v.1
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 8 May 2/1: Mary Tyler Moore occasionally smokes a toke.
at smoke a toke (v.) under toke, n.2
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 5 July 109/4: Mel Brooks [...] takes the idea of having a ‘toilet mouth’ to extremes.
at toilet-mouth (adj.) under toilet, n.
[US] Sacramento Bee (CA) 1 Nov. B7/1: The vaunted ‘Texas miracle’ in raising student test scores was more hat than cattle.
at more hat than cattle (adj.) under hat, n.
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