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[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: Went into a bean cave this morning to nail my uppercuts and Java.
at beanery, n.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/2: Cantering around like a booby hatch bug.
at booby-hatch, n.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: There was a cop in there hurling a ham and two bright eyes into his system.
at bright eyes, n.1
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: I pushed a couple of sinkers into my chops.
at chops, n.1
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: he thought I was doing that Charlie-the-Kidder thing and trying to hang a cut-up tag on him.
at cut-up, n.1
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/2: You’re going to let me glide out of here when I dig up for this bonnet, ain’t you?
at dig up, v.1
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: What you want [...] is about two quarts of that slow dope that they use down at the track on the not meant ones.
at dope, n.1
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: I could mazurka around the dump with that in my hand.
at dump, n.3
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: There was a cop [...] and he took it, too, that I was all for a hurry frisk and he jumped up and gave me the arm twist.
at frisk, n.1
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/2: This is a drowsy burg, and the folks don’t like the new gags.
at gag, n.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/2: He slanted out of the door on the double and did the daylight ghost thing down the street.
at do a ghost (v.) under ghost, n.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/2: Give me a hooter of the red kind.
at hooter, n.2
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: These hair harvesters down here sure are Jakey Next to all the new stuff.
at jake, adj.1
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: I dodged into a hat store. I needed a new lid.
at lid, n.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: The Greek shinesman felt of the curved knife [...] and looked like he was going to write his monaker on my middle with it.
at monniker, n.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/2: Give it a name, then.
at give it a name (phr.) under name, n.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: I pushed a couple of sinkers into my chops but nix on the Mocha.
at nix, adv.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/2: If they nail me [...] it’ll sure be me for a purple ticket to the nut foundry.
at nut foundry (n.) under nut, n.2
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/2: We can and will pickle you stiff inside of eight minutes if you’re there with the pay-off junk.
at pickle, v.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: Chasing after these popcorn bookies hass handed me this jump around junk.
at popcorn, adj.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: I hated the idea of a shave. But I galloped into a barber shop [...] ‘That’s all right,’ said the boss barber [...] ‘You’ll be staked to a scrape’.
at scrape, n.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/2: I shinned by the head barkeep’s stand.
at shin, v.2
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/2: He slanted out of the door on the double.
at slant, v.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/2: I pulled up [...] in a souse mill.
at souse mill (n.) under souse, n.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/2: We can and will pickle you stiff inside of eight minutes if you’re there with the pay-off junk.
at stiff, adj.
[US] News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: ‘I’m there with the trots keen enough,’ observed Split Finney, the tout.
at trots, n.
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