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[US] Maui News (Wailuku, HI) 26 Dec. 2/1: We would have hopped the coop long ago had we been unfortunate residents of Kula.
at hop the coop (v.) under coop, n.1
[US] Maui News (Wailuku, HI) 12 June 4/2: A pig sticker went suddenly insane today and killed five fellow workmen.
at pigsticker, n.
[US] Maui News (HI) 16 Dec. 7/1: He was sold to the Boston Red Sox, a misguided scout from Beantown having seen Barney in action.
at Bean Town (n.) under bean, n.1
[US] Maui News (HI) 2 Mar. 8/5: Down in my part of the country if a man lays 50 cents on a stump and hoots like an owl he can get a quart of wildcat whiskey.
at wildcat, n.
[US] Maui News (H.I.) 18 Jan. 4/1: A man can get [...] crazy runk on it as on the fiercest Jersey lightning.
at Jersey lightning (n.) under Jersey, adj.
[US] Maui News (Wailuku, HI) 15 Dec. 5/4: Only a dumb-bell calls another person a dumb-bell.
at dumb-bell, n.
[US] Maui News (Wailuku, HI) 12 May 4/1: Auto drivers and passengers are just plain, ordinary ‘humans’ and the human tendency to wrather is bound to [...] sometimes blow off the lid.
at blow one’s lid (v.) under lid, n.
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