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[NZ] Ohinemuri Gaz. (NZ) 27 Aug. 2/2: Higgins [...] was taking a preliminary swig of S and B.
at b and s, n.
[NZ] Ohinemuri Gaz. (Waikato) 27 Aug. 2/2: You whelp of an outcast beachcomber!
at beachcomber, n.
[NZ] Ohinemuri Gaz. (Waikato) 27 Aug. 2/3: You’ll have to decide between yourselves who gets the hoot.
at hoot, n.1
[NZ] Ohinemuri Gaz. (Waikato) 27 Aug. 2/2: You blanky infernal Hobart Town lag!
at lag, n.2
[NZ] Ohinemuri Gaz. (Waikato) 27 Aug. 2/2: You can see Rube Ruggs any day at the Shearer’s Rest [...] where he occupies the honorable post of wood-’n-water Joey.
at wood-and-water joey (n.) under wood, n.1
[NZ] Ohinemuri Gaz. (N.Z.) 22 Nov. 1/4: He came over ‘the big drink’ some months ago.
at big drink (n.) under drink, n.1
[NZ] Ohinemuri Gaz. (N.Z.) 22 Nov. 1/4: The one thing that really ‘got their goat’ was having to sleep on terra firma.
at get someone’s goat (v.) under goat, n.1
[NZ] Ohinemuri Gaz. (N.Z.) 22 Nov. 1/4: Whatever happens to the English, for the U.S.A. force it is going to be ‘heaven, hell, or Hoboken’ by Christmas.
at Hoboken, n.
[NZ] Ohinemuri Gaz. (N.Z.) 22 Nov. 1/4: He anticipates a real good thing for the Yanks and a correspondingly bad one for ‘Jerry’.
at Jerry, n.
[NZ] Ohinemuri Gaz. (N.Z.) 22 Nov. 1/4: He anticipates a real good thing for the Yanks and a correspondingly bad one for ‘Jerry’. The latter is assuredly up against the ‘straight goods’.
at straight goods (n.) under straight, adj.1
[NZ] Ohinemuri Gaz. (N.Z.) 22 Nov. 1/4: he couldn’t get the old dame ‘wise’ to it.
at get wise (to) (v.) under wise, adj.
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