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[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 27 July 1/5: He has been [...] charged with assaults and batteries, larcenies, burglaries, playing the badger game [etc].
at badger game (n.) under badger, n.1
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 6 May 4/1: He steadied himself against the corner of a friendly grog mill.
at grog mill (n.) under grog, n.1
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 2 Feb. 5/3: If I had [a sealskin overcoat] I wouldn’t wear it [...] The lum-tum fellows promenade Broadway in jackets.
at lum tum, adj.
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 23 Mar. 8/1: Music, the clatter of glasses [...] laughter and good cheer [...] Are you blue? That’s the lum-tum dose [...] the propah capah.
at lum tum, adj.
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 10 Mar. 4/1: We can’t tell what’ll catch on with the public.
at catch on, v.
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 7 July 4/2: Soda Water Topers / Regular Customers of the Fountains — / ‘Soft Stuff’ Hurting the Saloons.
at soft stuff (n.) under soft, adj.
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 24 Aug. 2/5: ‘That spotter thinks he’s fly, but he’s not fly worth a cent,’ whispered a dusty conductor on a Market street car.
at spotter, n.1
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 30 Sept. 1/2: ‘I will swear on a stack of Bibles as high as this court room [...] that my father was not murdered by any of my brothers’.
at swear on a stack of Bibles (a mile high) (v.) under swear, v.
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 22 Sept. 6/2: The cat was abducted by young ‘Snowball,’ the boot-black.
at snowball, n.2
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 8 May 15/4: Why, there’s about seven hundred young men just like that right here in Smokeburg.
at Smokeburg, n.
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 1 Oct. 23/3: [The house] was twined and festooned with Irish draperies [...] We lost no time in christening our new boudoir ‘Cobweb Hall’.
at Irish draperies (n.) under Irish, adj.
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 21 Jan. 4/6: [He] found a big policeman drubbing a man who wasn’t bigger than a minute.
at no bigger than a minute (adj.) under big, adj.
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 4 May 8/3: The ‘Rainmakers’ and the ‘Trolley Dodgers’ are the latest terms used by base ball writers to designate the Phillies and the Brooklyns.
at trolley-dodger (n.) under trolley, n.
[US] Times (Philadelphia, PA) 25 Oct. 3/2: The Republicans [...] ‘are filthy with money’ and are spending it liberally.
at filthy with under filthy, adj.
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