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The Dingbat Family choose

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[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 8 Apr. [synd. cartoon strip] Ike ollies, it looked like it was all up the alley with the expedition for a minute, did n’t it?
at up the alley (adj.) under alley, n.1
[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 22 Apr. [synd. cartoon strip] Y’ big cabbage faced gazooni.
at cabbage-headed, adj.
[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 21 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] Don’t chuck up your jobs to go on this ‘expedition’.
at chuck up, v.2
[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 31 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] [sign on wooden ‘drugstore Indian’] Smoke the el dopo].
at dope, n.1
[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 26 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] I hope that hat gives him [i.e. a camel] acute indigestion!! Gol-dazzle ’im!!!
at goll, n.2
[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 8 Apr. [synd. cartoon strip] Ike ollies, it looked like it was all up the alley with the expedition for a minute, did n’t it?
at by golly! (excl.) under golly!, excl.
[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 24 Apr. [synd. cartoon strip] Under the hatches with that comedy, woman — S’ cheap stuff.
at under the hatches (excl.) under hatch, n.2
[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 24 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] Merciful mackerel, wot’s this, wot’s this???
at holy mackerel!, excl.
[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 28 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] Mr Melbourne Sweezy and Mr James Juniper can be noticed in the immediate background giving the undaunted chicken destroyer ‘jiggers’.
at give jiggers (v.) under jigger!, excl.
[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 8 May [synd. cartoon strip] A mustash like a ‘Portygee baron’.
at Portagee, n.
[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 18 Mar. [synd. cartoon strip] — You tuny-faced sandia. — Rude hombre.
at tun(n)y-faced (n.) under tuna, n.
[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 5 Feb. [synd. strip] Mrs Hoozus, you and me came in this room to discuss in private our social differences.
at whosis, n.
[US] G. Herriman Dingbat Family 11 Apr. [synd. cartoon strip] Dor-gonnit!! S’as much as my life is worth to let any-one know I come back.
at doggone, v.
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