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[Can] Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 17 Nov. 10/3: Ma and Pa, if they don’t want to drop a clanger, will also have to beeze up on their English with the following glossary [...].
at drop a clanger (v.) under clanger, n.1
[Can] Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 17 Nov. 10/3: What a shower – expression of disgust.
at shower of shit (n.) under shower, n.
[Can] Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 17 Nov. 10/3: First Soldier (surveying his dinner) ‘Slingers and Gippo again!’ [...] Slingers and Gippo – sausages and gravy.
at slingers, n.
[Can] in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: A wind-broken horse is a roarer or a blower.
at blower, n.2
[Can] in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: Many of the touts around race tracks are former carnival hustlers or carnies whose gambling concessions were known as flat-joints.
at flat joint (n.) under flat, adj.3
[Can] in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: Of course, you‘ll find many gazooneys and guntzels around the race tracks as well as the carnivals.
at gazooney, n.1
[Can] in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: Of course, you’ll find many gazooneys and guntzels around the race tracks as well as the carnivals.
at gonsel, n.
[Can] in Lethbridge Herald (Alberta) 22 Mar. 14/4: A groom is a ginny or a swipe.
at guinea, n.1
[Can] in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: A horse which appears certain to win is a gut.
at gut, n.
[Can] in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: Such larcenous jockeys as used a small hand-batter to stimulate a steed to greater speed, used a joint or a machine and a trainer who stimulated his horses, internally or externally, was a mechanic.
at mechanic, n.
[Can] in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: Pardon me, but I feel lucky today. I’ll just go over to see the beezock in the mitt-joint and get her to read my palm.
at mitt joint (n.) under mitt, n.
[Can] in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: morning glory [...] a horse who performs spectacularly in morning workouts but fails to equal those performances in actual competition with other horses.
at morning glory (n.) under morning, n.
[Can] in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: A wind-broken horse is a roarer or a blower.
at roarer, n.
[Can] in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: A horse which runs in the can [i.e. loses] because his owner didn’t wish him to win that particular afternoon is a stiff.
at stiff, n.1
[Can] in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: A stooper is a fellow who wanders around looking for cashable pari-mutuel tickets which may have been dropped carelessly.
at stooper, n.
[Can] in Lethbridge Herald (Alberta, Canada) 22 Mar. 14/4: A horse’s legs are referred to as his wheels.
at wheels, n.
[Can] Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 21 Jan. 8/1: Here is a language in which a banjo is a shovel, or perhaps a frying pan.
at banjo, n.1
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