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[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 15: Riding the train back from Alexandria or ‘Alex,’ we saw many camels.
at Alex, n.
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 21: Jumbo Reilly was the bouncer, and efficient at his work. One night, Jumbo flung Halfpint out, demonstrating the bouncing art at its best.
at bounce, v.1
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 22: When Marilyn [Monroe] joined us [...] she looked extremely bouncy in a low-cut dress.
at bouncy, adj.
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 22: Silver dollars are dumped into garbage cans in the gambling houses on razzle-dazzle Fremont Street, the main drag.
at razzle-dazzle, adj.
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 11: The Swedish equivalent of the American ‘prohibition agent’ is joked about just as we used to laugh about our ‘dry dicks’.
at dick, n.5
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 22: Wilbur Clark, operator of the Desert Inn, [...] says Las Vegas has them all faded.
at fade, v.1
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 23: Jim indicated his diamond cane, diamond glasses, diamond zipper, and diamond teeth—‘falsies’ which he wears for show.
at falsies, n.
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 11: In Denmark, where there are so many beautiful blond women [...] there are about as many finagling husbands as you would find anywhere else.
at finagle, v.
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 19: ‘I would like you to let me have $150’ [...] Flash! I did not give him the $150.
at flash, n.1
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 46: ‘I think I’ll be after goin’ down to the Royal Hibernian Hotel bar for a drop.’ ‘Sure, and your old hairpin will be after goin’ with ye’.
at hairpin, n.
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 22: Such was the concentration of a woman playing blackjack near by that she looked down at the corpse [...] and in the same breath said to the blackjack dealer, ‘Hit me’.
at hit me! (excl.) under hit, v.
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 76: ‘They only have races Wednesday and Sunday. I wish they had them oftener. They’d help me kill my day’.
at kill, v.
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 22: The streets of ‘Lost Wages,’ Nevada, are not like the streets of any other American city today.
at Lost Wages, n.
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 4: We each got nicked a shilling—fourteen cents—to get in.
at nick, v.1
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 207: They taught you all about the International Date Line in school, but if you’re as retarded as I am, you still don’t quite believe it.
at retarded, adj.
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 6: They kiss a lady’s hand all the way up to the elbow, and if they see yes-yes in her eyes, all the way up to the shoulder. [...] South of that is considered out of bounds.
at south, adj.
[US] E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 20: [W]e found it difficult to explain to him why we didn’t have up moolah.
at up, prep.
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