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[US] Miami News (FL) Mag. 23 Aug. 2/5: A large burial ground or ‘skull orchard’ as people sometimes refer to it.
at skull orchard (n.) under skull, n.1
[US] Miami News (FL) 25 Jan. 6/1: Police department, city graft, CWA pulls, all stink to high heaven.
at stink to high heaven (v.) under stink, v.
[US] Miami News (FL) 6 Apr. 16/1: Pat was greeted every five minutes with, ‘Lets go, beer-head’.
at beerhead (n.) under beer, n.
[US] Miami News (FL) 4 Mar. 8/7: He asked the bartender if it was a private fight [...] ‘Free for all,’ the booze slinger answered.
at booze slinger (n.) under booze, n.
[US] Miami News (FL) 6 Nov. 1/3: Three-A men can becomes 3-B’s by getting a job in a war plant, even if it’s only as elevator pilot.
at elevator jockey (n.) under elevator, n.
[US] Miami News (FL) 3 Jn. 27/4: However heathcliffe sniffs a rodent and gets excited.
at smell a mouse (v.) under smell, v.
[US] Miami News (FL) 16 Aug. 10/1: Charlie Laye [...] is going around with his neck in a sling, so to speak, as a result of that stomp-down drag-out match with Roy (Bad Boy) Allen.
at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adj.
[US] Miami News (FL) 27 July 5/1: A high school Harry with jitteritis.
at high-school harry (n.) under high, adj.1
[US] Miami News (FL) 25 Dec. 53/2: ‘He was a number two man’ [...] ‘A second dealer,’ I mused. ‘Did he mark the cards also?’.
at number two man (n.) under number two, n.
[US] Miami News (FL) 6 Dec. 13/8: In the slums of johannesburg [...] the Shebeen Queen is a power. In a secret hideout she brews the favorite African drink ‘skokian’.
at shebeen queen (n.) under shebeen, n.
[US] Miami News (FL) 23 July 40/1: Let’s first, however, differentiate between the [Catskill] Bagel Belt and the well-known Borscht Circuit of show biz.
at bagel belt (n.) under bagel, n.
[US] Miami News (FL) 17 July 6/6: Telling a pan-handler to go away was ‘take stoppo!‘.
at take stoppo! (excl.) under stoppo, n.
[US] Miami News (FL) 26 July 5/5: Even the ‘Dream Sticks’ Soar as Inflation Trend Continues. The cost of marijuana cigarets [...] is on the upward trend. The price hike of ‘dream sticks’ is really startling.
at dream stick (n.) under dream, n.4
[US] Miami News (FL) 25 May 18/1: A former senator, Claude pepper, old slyboots himself, even got into the act.
at slyboots (n.) under sly, adj.
[US] Miami News (FL) 19 June 20/5: [headline] Rowdy Russians / ‘Live It Up’ At / Booze Session.
at booze session (n.) under booze, n.
[US] Miami News (FL) 28 Apr. 2C/2: The Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, who as the saying goes, is as Irish as Paddy’s pig.
at as Irish as Paddy Murphy’s pig under Irish, adj.
[US] Miami News (FL) 7 Nov. 128/3: [headline] ‘Popskull Is Skull Popper. [...] A bottle of liquor taken from a prisoner ‘exploded like a stick of dynamite’.
at popskull, n.
[US] Miami News (FL) 6 Oct. 16/1: This philosophy paid off [...] but now it’s really a skull-popper of a problem.
at skull-popper (n.) under skull, n.1
[US] Miami News (FL) 3 July Florida Living 7/2: He saw his father ‘tin-canned’ out of Fort Smith.
at tin-can, v.
[US] Miami News (FL) 2 Niv. 47/1: She wears [...] a rumpled yellow skirt and her slip is showing. (‘Snowing down South,’ we used to say).
at snowing down south!, excl.
[US] Miami News (FL) 24 Apr. 16/1: Former President Harry Truman [...] wants to live ‘as long as my think-tank works’.
at think-tank (n.) under think, v.
[US] Miami News (FL) 1 Mar. 7/3: [He] still smokes 15 ‘penny stinker’ cigars a day.
at stinker, n.1
[US] Miami News (FL) 1 May 8A/2: The walls are lined with a conglomeration of western ‘tstatskes’ — gewgaws like electrified lanterns, antelope horns.
at tchotchke, n.
[US] Miami News (FL) 20 Mar. 1/1: Marijuana [...] grifa, hay, hashish, goof butt, green, ganja [etc].
at goof butt (n.) under goof, n.2
[US] Miami News (FL) 27 June 11/4: Tag agency personnel encourage motorists to buy their tags through the mail.
at tag, n.3
[US] Miami News (FL) 19 Oct. 13/3: ‘You get more boffs [...] who needs these rubes?’.
at boff, n.2
[US] Miami News (FL) 19 Oct. 13/3: [T]he sight-seeing gamblers [...] going to see life in the raw in Sin City.
at Sin City (n.) under sin, n.
[US] Miami News (FL) 22 Dec. 1/1: Bernie is proprietor and manager of the Worst Food in Oregon, a seedy little slophouse between Stinkingwater Creek and Calamity Pass.
at slophouse (n.) under slop, n.1
[US] Miami News (FL) 19 Feb. 13/2: What was Altobelli’s formula for success as a care salesman? ‘Stick-to-it-ivess,’ he said.
at stick-to-it-iveness (n.) under stick to, v.
[US] Miami News (FL) 15 Dec. 39/2: He remebered the ‘Shutter Girls,’ prostitutes who would whisper to passers-by from behind the shutters.
at shutter-girl (n.) under shutter, n.
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