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[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] Paducah Sun (KY) 19 Nov. 6/4: Veterans insulted and ignored, and mullet-heads put in the high places.
at mullethead, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] Paducah Sun (KY) 16 Nov. 5/1: Get Stupid. Get Busted. Smart Driving Saves Lives.
at get stupid (v.) under stupid, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] Paducah Sun (KY) 14 Oct. A7/5: He called a reporter ‘a sleazebag’.
at sleazebag (n.) under sleaze, n.
[US] 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
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