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[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 8 Apr. 10: The mission’s members engaged in an undignified slanging match.
at slanging match (n.) under slang, v.1
[US] Salt lake Trib. (UT) 18 July 8/3Another trck of the tinhorn is to watch around a faro table until he sees a bet which the owner has overlooked and which the tinhonr pounces upon: .
at tinhorn, n.
[US] Salt Lake Tribune (UT) 31 Jan. 17/6: When they spotted me all covered with mud comin’ along with the supe their eyes bunged out so you could hang your hat on ’em — they thought the devil was out on the bum, sure.
at on a/the bum under bum, n.3
[US] Salt Lake Tribune (UT) 31 Jan. 17/6: When they spotted me all covered with mud comin’ along with the supe their eyes bunged out so you could hang your hat on ’em .
at bung out (v.) under bung, v.1
[US] Salt Lake Tribune (UT) 31 Jan. 17/2: Roarin’ like a bull I raked my jaw sideways [...] an’ threw another crimp into him .
at throw a crimp into (v.) under crimp, n.1
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 27 Nov. 4/3: De guy w’at runs de dump where Finnegan an’ me was goin’ to doss says I’m a room robber.
at dump, n.3
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 27 Nov. 4/3: Say, just take a gander at them mitts. Do they look like I was a vag?
at take a gander (at) (v.) under gander, n.3
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 27 Nov. 4/3: Dis guy says I glommed dese kicks [...] Say, dat’s de limit, ain’t it?
at glom, v.
[US] Salt Lake Tribune (UT) 31 Jan. 17/1: You won’t get a cent more salary, not a gol dinged cent .
at goldarned, adj.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 27 Nov. 4/3: What was we grabbed for?
at grab, v.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 22 Oct. 2/4: The younger nelson is one of those ‘hell-benders’ in politics.
at hell-bender (n.) under hell, n.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 10 July 11/2: Weller has easily defeated all the Canuck scrappers [...] and he has now come over the line was a chance at some of the yankee mitt artists.
at mitt artist (n.) under mitt, n.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 10 July 12/1: He has [...] hopes of winning the world’s amateur record for under water swimming before turning ‘pro’.
at pro, adj.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 28 May 4/1: F. Clarke, who plays such bodacious ball for the Pirates, is a mighty killer of the furry game.
at bodacious, adj.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 3 Sept. 28/5: There has been a lot of rag-chewing over what these two boys will do.
at chew the rag, v.
[US] Salt Lake Tribune (UT) 15 Jan. 21/5: Bertha Heyman, alias 'Big Bertha,’ was another famous ‘confidence queen’.
at confidence-queen, n.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 13 Feb. 3/6: ‘Give me twelve bottles of cough medicine.’ [...] He inquired if there was sickness in the family. ‘Why, no,’ replied the purchaser. ‘Are you not wise? This is only booze’.
at cough medicine (n.) under cough, n.
[US] Salt Lake Tribune (UT) 27 Aug. 7/5: Next time I [...] get put in ther wrong seat by one of your pot-headed underlings there’s going to be trouble.
at pothead, n.1
[US] Salt Lake Tribune (UT) 22 Oct. 7/2: The Theta U club held aninformal rush party at the university Thursday afternoon.
at rush, adj.
[US] Salt Lake Tribune (UT) 22 Dec. 21/4: [He] had won the position of trusty at Pocatello, and about five days before his sentence expired [...] he took ‘Dutch leave’.
at Dutch leave (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
[US] Salt lake Trib. (UT) 6 Jan. 2/3: Storm centres are hovering over [...] North Atlantic States [...] giving the ‘herring chokers’ a dash of drizzling rain.
at herring-choker (n.) under herring, n.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 26 Dec. 7/2: Men and wqomen in all stages of intoxicaion from the talkative ‘dictionary’ to the man who couldn’t hit the ground with three throws of his hat.
at couldn’t hit the ground with his hat under couldn’t..., phr.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 4 Oct. 4/4: [advert] When hollow cheeks appear and hidden pigments make the eyes look like burnt holes in a blanket, the blood is sick and out of tune.
at eyes like pissholes in the snow (n.) under eye, n.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 18 Apr. 7/2: Elebnorn is a ‘corner’ and has the stuff in him to work up to the ‘scroll of fame’ in the boxing line with any mitt juggler.
at mitt-juggler (n.) under mitt, n.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 15 Mar. 17/5: ‘He’s — he’s a mucker’ [...] ‘Yes he is,‘ the coach continued impetuously, ‘a mucker, a first-class mucker [...] and every son-of-a-gun in that boat owes it to the college to do his damnedest’.
at mucker, n.1
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 5 Dec. 51/2: You little ape!
at ape, n.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 7 Feb. 26/5: In the famous blizzard of ’88 — ‘aw, the wind was cold [...] as cold as a stepmother’s breath’.
at ...a step-mother’s breath under cold as..., adj.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 25 July 10/1: Kentucky was formerly a stronghold of the ‘wildcatter’.
at wildcatter, n.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 25 July 10/1: The term ‘moonshining’ belongs to Kentucky and Tennessee, while in Alabama the business is called ‘wildcatting’.
at wildcatter, n.
[US] Salt Lake Trib. (UT) 18 Sept. 21/7: In winter [...] there are temperatures that would breeze the nose off any ‘brass monkey’.
at cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, phr.
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