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[US] Mohave County Miner (AZ) 30 May 5/2: He will work his brainpan and say what ought to be if he can’t say what really is.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] Mohave County Miner (AZ) 2 July 4/1: China Jack has opened up a hashery.
at hash-house, n.
[US] Mohave Co. Miner (AZ) 22 Oct 2/3: Mudlsinging will not win votes.
at mud-slinging, n.
[US] Mohave County Miner (Mineral Park, AZ) 22 Dec. 5/1: Hank McClure is running the Irish buggy.
at Irish buggy (n.) under Irish, adj.
[US] Mohave Co. Miner (AZ) 24 Aug. 2/1: A pumpkin roller on the Graham Guardian criticizes the mechanical makeup of the Miner.
at pumpkin-roller (n.) under pumpkin, n.
[US] Mohave County Miner (AZ) 29 Aug. 5/1: He was broadly esteemed a hot potato.
at hot potato, n.1
[US] Mohave Co. Miner (AZ) 28 Aug. 1/1: I’m a miner from the desert, and I want a change of base / [...] / So I’m going to Alaska, where it’s colder than the deuce.
at deuce, the, phr.
[US] Mohave Co. Miner (AZ) 28 Aug. 1/1: Dingblast the Pao Verde, with its bristles standing out!
at dingbust, v.
[US] Mohave Co. Miner (AZ) 28 Aug. 1/1: Dogon the little toad that has a dozen kinds of thorns.
at doggone, v.
[US] Mohave County Miner (AZ) 12 Aug. 3/2: Fred Pomeroy is the mourning the loss of a big iron dollar.
at iron dollar (n.) under iron, n.
[US] Mohave County Miner (AZ) 30 Sept. 7/3: Dr C.C. Telleson is a great lover of fresh hen fruit.
at hen fruit (n.) under hen, n.
[US] Mohave County Miner (AZ) 3 Nov. 1/2: The car [...] skidded and pitched all the occupants out. They hit the dirt head on.
at hit the dirt (v.) under dirt, n.
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