1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 67: Anne sighed and said O.K. lover boy. It was a big nickel’s worth.at big nickel (n.) under big, adj.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 87: ‘Hit you a good lick, didn’t he?’ ‘I’ve been socked on the biscuit before,’ I said.at biscuit, n.1
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 67: ‘The Carlton at four o’clock this afternoon,’ I said. Anne sighed and said O.K. lover boy.at lover-boy, n.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 22: Sam was one of the two or three hundred pressure boys in Washington. [...] You want a law passed or not passed [...] you will hire Sam Finch.at pressure boy, n.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 125: ‘She burned out her gentlemen friends very fast, I have heard’.at burn out, v.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 157: I gave him [...] the curbstone opinion that Henrietta had been poisoned.at curbstone, adj.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 25: ‘Whyn’t you wipe that garbage-eating grin off your face?’ I asked.at shit-eating grin, n.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 41: ‘[S]someday you are going to get that old eggshell of yours caved in for carrying money like that’.at egg, n.1
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 18: The little girl had been a familiar figure at [...] the cocktail fights frequented by the old man.at fight, n.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 46: The he-gossips at the Press Club have been gumming about another romance of Courtney Mandrel’s.at gum, v.2
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 164: [I]t was an ambulance, helling out the state road.at hell, v.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 19: I hit up the operator. ‘Did Miss Chance stop off at the restaurant?’ I asked.at hit up, v.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 12: [I]f the government built the pipeline, the Broken Bow interests would be hog-rich overnight.at hog-rich (adj.) under hog, n.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 17: He was a big, hog-gutted man with little puzzled blue eyes set deep in a heavy, purple face.at hog-gutted under hog, n.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 120: ‘She’d do anything to keep him from being hooked up in a scandal. Wants him to be President’.at hook up (v.) under hook, v.1
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 119: I am not going to take any hot money for participating in a swindle.at hot, adj.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 84: ‘What do you want. Or should I say, how much?’ [...] ‘Well, Strongheart, the ante has been kicked somewhat’.at kick, v.1
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 106: The kicker, of course, was the station wagon [...] who ever heard of having a station wagon without painting a coy name on the side of it?at kicker, n.6
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 96: ‘I saw her as I left his apartment. Very well-kept piece of machinery. [...] Very vigorous and healthy-looking tomato’.at machinery, n.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 89: He took a generous nibble at his drink and continued.at nibble, n.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 140: I let good old Strongheart have another real fine left to the pantry.at pantry, n.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 42: I let these thoughts percolate while I drove through Washington.at percolate, v.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 67: Henrietta [...] also looked like a gal who'd pop your shoelaces.at pop someone’s shoelaces (v.) under pop, v.1
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 9: I dealt six tickets to all hands. [...] ‘The trump suit will be puppy-dog feet’.at puppy-foot (n.) under puppy, n.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 125: ‘Courtney Mandrel is pushed off with a poison’.at push off (v.) under push, v.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 15: ‘[A] lot of good men died trying to fly old rust buckets against the airplanes the Krauts and Japs had’.at rust bucket (n.) under rust, n.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 49: ‘[E]ven he is smart enough to know he is shoveling garbage against the tide with his pipeline bill’.at shovel shit against the tide (v.) under shovel, v.
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 40: ‘I don’t like to have folks spin me. You know what I mean?’ [...] ‘Sure,’ I said. I wouldn’t spin you, Sam’.at spin, v.1
1950 R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 153: Perhaps if the antidotes had been applied instantly they would have saved her. It’s star-gazing.at star-gazing (n.) under star, n.1