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News (London) 15 Nov. 383: The first defendant [...] nudged his fellow-sufferer, urged him to give plenty of ‘cheek,’ and to speak out like a man.at cheek, n.2
News (London) 15 Nov. 383: The first defendant [...] nudged his fellow-sufferer, urged him to give plenty of ‘cheek,’ and to speak out like a man.![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom")
News (London) 15 Nov. 383: I duster say as your case is werry right, but I must get a mouthful of ‘grub’ somehow.at grub, n.2
News (London) 30 Nov. 383: Ah! said Smith, as he left the office, this here hact vos the work of the ‘Vigs,’ and now the Duke of Wellington as put the ‘Kibosh’ on ’em, vich they never would have got, if they hadn’t passed it; that’s vot’s floor’d em.at put the kibosh on (v.) under kibosh, n.
News (London) 15 Nov. 383: Vy, I von’t pitch no gammon, but this here’s the pint.at pitch, v.
News (London) 4 Jan. 3/4: ‘He did not care a d—n if she had twins on the stones; if she had three at a birth she should not have her basket again’.at stones, the, n.
News (Frederick, MD) 8 Dec. n.p.: Well might he say ‘B-r-r-r-r’ for according to the weather sharp cold temperatures [...] are due.at weather sharp (n.) under sharp, n.1
News (Adelaide) 28 Jan. 2/3: Today’s [race was] a soft snack for him.at snack, n.2
News (Adelaide) 28 Dec. 6/3: We miss the grand old stalwarts who trod the Sunset Track.at sunset track, n.
News (Adelaide) 4 July 3/4: THIS IS A BIT ROUGH ON A FELLOW is what the artist was asked to illustrate. This is what he did.at a bit rough (adj.) under rough, adj.
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News (Adelaide) 27 Feb. 1/4: ‘Stop that chaff cutter a moment,’ said Mr. A. J. Radford in No. 4 Adelaide Police Court today. The clerk ceased using the typewriter while Mr. Radford addressed counsel.at chaff-cutter, n.2
News (Frederick, MD) 15 Feb. 4/8: ‘Doing a bendover’ is a popular form of mute solicitation; it means standing a dejected posture in front of theaters and restaurants.at do a bendover (v.) under bend, v.1
News (Frederick, MD) 15 Feb. 4/7: To ‘give the brush’ is to reject a proposition or a person’s friendship.at give someone the brush(-off) (v.) under brush-off, n.
News (Frederick, MD) 15 Feb. 4/7: Food or drink ‘on the cuff’ is on the house — gratis. And a ‘cufferoo’ is an influential individual to whom waiters don’t give checks.at cufferoo (adj.) under cuff, n.2
News (Frederick, MD) 15 Feb. 4/8: The bartender’s lexicon reveals a number of new terms [...] ‘playing the piano’ is short-changing the cash register.at play the piano (v.) under piano, n.
News (Frederick, MD) 15 Feb. 4/8: Panhandlers are called ‘seagulls’ probably because they’re scavengers of ‘the beach’.at seagull (n.) under sea, n.
News (Frederick, MD) 15 Feb. 4/8: ‘How much off the top?’ means the same thing, since interest is deducted in advance and thus comes off the top of the bills counted out by the money lender.at off the top (adv.) under top, n.
News (Frederick, MD) 15 Feb. 4/7: When negotiating a loan from a Broadway usurerone asks how much ‘vigorish,’ or interest, will be charged.at vigorish, n.
News (Frederick, MD) 6 Oct. 4/8: If a man is ‘hot’ the odds are two to one he’ll be shot before the week is out.at hot, adj.
News (Adelaide) 28 Dec. 1/2: [T]he chances are fifty-fifty they haven’t been extravagant in their use of water, but that their meters are about as reliable as two-bob watches .at two-bob watch, n.
News (Frederick, MD) 3 Sept. 11/2: It complicated the situation damnably.at damnably, adv.
News (Adelaide) 11 Jan. 5/7: The scientist, honest man, suggested that his glass of lunch was more important than this sort of thing.at glass of lunch (n.) under glass, n.2
News (Frederick, MD) 3 Sept. 11/2: ‘That’s a queer little customer yonder in the gray suit.’ ‘Quare is the word, mister’.at quare, adj.
News (Frederick, MD) 3 Sept. 11/2: That’s a queer little customer yonder in the gray suit.at queer customer (n.) under queer, adj.
News (Frederick, MD) 3 Sept. 11/4: This Madame X business have [sic] pretty well stamped her as a sob specialist, She is a fine crier.at sob-raiser (n.) under sob, n.1
News (Adelaide) 13 Jan.5/7: I knew then that I could do it on my ear. If I could come in as strong as I did against Kay [...] then Uren was in for a bag of trouble.at do on one’s ear (v.) under ear, n.1
News (Adelaide) 22 Nov. 2/3: Two classes of prisoners get a rough time in gaol-sex offenders and ‘fizzers,’ gaol slang tor police informers. ‘Fizzers’ are shunned by other prisoners and have to be on their guard all the time.at fizzer, n.3
News (Adelaide) 1 June 2/3: I cantered through
the peaceful Adelaide
Hills, per ankle express,
on Saturday morning, in a
mist of fog and profanity.at ankle express (n.) under ankle, n.
‘Washington Daybook’ in News (Frederick, MD) 5 Jan. 4/3: Charles D. Waggner [is] trying to collect the lingo of the railroad [...] A sample of this pure American slang is – ash cats, crummie, cut off, dinkey, decorate, drag, hoggers, car knockers, whistle pigs, bakeheads, clinker boys, tallow pots, dead headers, glimmer, hump, kick, no-bill, rawhiding, gon, she, slop freight, train line, washout, reefer, dice train, drone cage, hoptoad, cinder dick, cage, fly light, and on the ground.at cinder dick (n.) under cinder, n.1
News (Adelaide) 1 July 5/3: ‘He wants to jack up, but his mouthpiece drums him to nod the nut, and he cops the clock in boob’ .at clock, n.1
‘Washington Daybook’ in News (Frederick, Maryland) 5 Jan. 4/3: Charles D. Waggner [is] trying to collect the lingo of the railroad [...] A sample of this pure American slang is – [...] dead headers.at deadhead, n.
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