1898 Paducah Sun (KY) 12 Apr. 1/7: ‘Coke’ must go [...] The demoralizing habit of using cocaine, or what is known among the fiends as ‘coke’.at coke, n.1
1898 Paducah Sun (KY) 12 Apr. 1/7: All coke fiends will be arrested and made to tell where they procured their coke.at coke fiend (n.) under coke, n.1
1901 Paducah Sun (KY) 21 May 2/2: The old familiar tune they are singing to get ’em up to the moaners’ bench.at moaner’s bench, n.
1901 Paducah Sun (KY) 17 Oct. 2/5: One gentleman [...] went off the other day in a hurry and left his false teeth on the bureau and we mailed the forgotten ‘crunchers’ to his address.at crunchers, n.
1901 Paducah Sun (KY) 14 Jan. 1/3: A ‘shave-tail’ is a ‘griffin’ [...] and known even more widely as a ‘ring-tailed snorter’ [...] terms of reproach addressed to the ‘rookie’.at ringtailed snorter, n.
1902 Paducah Sun (KY) 18 Jan. 5/5: If a cold wave should ‘hit us’ with the fast declining rivers it would be ‘Katy, bar the door’ with steam-boat men .at Katy bar the door, phr.
1902 Paducah Sun (KY) 2 Sept. 7/2: The Irish member of Parliament is due the credit for the first ‘bull’ of the session. ‘Then when will the heliogram correspondence be published?’ demanded the persistent Irishman.at bull, n.2
1902 Paducah Sun (KY) 30 July 3/1: Dogtown must go [...] Dogtown has for years been the habitation of the most indigent and criminal classes.at dogtown, n.1
1902 Paducah Sun (KY) 9 Dec. 3/2: Although he may say he doesn’t mean anything of the kind he does, and is only trying to ‘jew you down’.at jew, v.
1902 Paducah Sun (KY) 19 Nov. 6/4: Veterans insulted and ignored, and mullet-heads put in the high places.at mullethead, n.
1903 Paducah Sun (KY) 29 Sept. 8/2: Their dialogue was bright and humorous [...] and without any knock down, drag out stunts.at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adj.
1903 Paducah Sun (KY) 13 Mar. 4/2: Grover Cleveland will stand out conspiciously in the history of the Democratic, while [...] Col. W.J. Bryan will be buried in dead oodles of oblivion.at dead oodles (n.) under dead, adj.
1903 Paducah Sun (KY) 3 Jan. 4/4: My mother would exert a sudden pressure on my shoulder and down I’d kerflummox in that icy water.at kerflummox, v.
1904 Paducah Sun (KY) 8 Nov. 2/2: Any guy wot’s got a good knot can work up there, stranger, ’cause taint no job for yokels and apple knockers.at apple-knocker, n.
1995 Paducah Sun (KY) 16 Nov. 5/1: Get Stupid. Get Busted. Smart Driving Saves Lives.at get stupid (v.) under stupid, adj.
1997 Paducah Sun (KY) 1 Jan. 36/2: Strep throat affects up to 5 million each year [...] About 30 to 40 percent will test positive on a throat culture for strep.at strep, n.
2016 Paducah Sun (KY) 14 Oct. A7/5: He called a reporter ‘a sleazebag’.at sleazebag (n.) under sleaze, n.
2017 Paducah Sun (KY) 20 Mar. B2/2: Kelso pitched quite a gem for Calloway County at the Marshall County Slugfest.at slugfest (n.) under slug, v.2