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[US] Spokane Press (WA) 17 June 4/3: His work as referee was very much of the punkerino order.
at punkerino (adj.) under punk, n.1
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 30 Nov. 2/1: The talented useful man would rank high above the pig-brained millionaire.
at pig-brained (adj.) under pig, n.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 14 Dec. 2/3: But what a punmch he has! [...] Hoe will remember those rib benders for a very long time.
at rib bender (n.) under rib, n.1
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 28 July 2/1: We doubt the attempted assassination of the procurator of the holy synod was a ‘barney’.
at barney, n.1
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 28 July 2/1: The corkscrew [...] reclining supinely in the bell hop’s pocket.
at bellhop (n.) under bell, n.1
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 9 Dec. 1/4: She gives her occupation as an actress, but is known as a box rustler.
at box rustler (n.) under box, n.1
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 28 July 2/1: Dashwood was there with the ‘dope’ yesterday both with the stick and behind the bat.
at dope, n.1
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 12 Aug. 2/1: Russell Sage is 89 and he hasn’t peeped about a wasted life yet.
at peep, v.2
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 22 Dec. 4/1: A Betwixt an’ Between. I don’t know which I’d rather be, / A rich man’s boy or a poor man’s kid. / [...] for I ain’t nothin’ at all, I guess, / ’Xcept just an old betwixt and between.
at betwix(t) and between, adj.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 3 Nov. 2/2: He [...] is invited to cut loose [...] with a humorous reference to the introductory remarks of the local big wheeze who presented him.
at big wheeze (n.) under big, adj.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 9 Feb. 3/1: O’Keefe and his running partner were going along the road when reilly stopped them.
at running partner, n.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 7 Aug. 2/3: Thomas [...] has become a missionary among ther ‘coke’ fiends of the Tenderloin.
at coke fiend (n.) under coke, n.1
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 24 Dec. 4/6: You’ve heard the song Sousa wrote: / ‘The Hands Across the Sea.’ / He must have meant Big Wilhelm’s mitt / And the bread hooks of Tedd-ee.
at bread hooks (n.) under bread, n.1
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 16 Dec. 1/1: Everybody and his cousin has heard of the ‘Two Tims’.
at everybody and his cousin, n.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 26 May 3/1: If he’ll only listen to me [...] before he flies into a Dutch fit and does anything rash, I can soon make everything right.
at Dutch fit (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
[US] Spokane Press (Washinton, WA) 1 Dec. 16/3: Mexican Dollar is a Real Joke [...] The successor to the old ‘adobe (dobey) dollar’ has not a milled edge.
at adobe dollar (n.) under adobe, adj.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 27 Mar. 5/4: Not the first attempt that has been made to hold back bottles till the brewers were ‘up against’ it for receptacles for their amber brew.
at amber, adj.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 22 Sept. 7/3: ‘Dopey’ Agnes says it’s [i.e. opium] the best ever and she ought to know because she’s performed on the bamboo for 27 years.
at bamboo, n.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 17 Aug. 4/3: He’s so loose in his attic that he rattles.
at loose in the bean (adj.) under bean, n.1
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 22 Sept. 7/3: An Irishman is referred to as a ‘boiled dinner’.
at boiled dinner (n.) under boiled, adj.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 22 Sept. 1/8: Was out with a mob of moll buzzers the other night and boosted a few skins.
at boost, v.2
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 22 Sept. 7/3: A‘sweet booster’ is a successful female shop-lifter.
at sweet booster (n.) under booster, n.2
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 22 Sept. 7/3: One old bowser [...] swung on my roof with her mush and put my thatch to the cleaners.
at bowser, n.2
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 22 Sept. 7/3: ‘A bull buster’ is one who makes a practice of assaulting policemen.
at bull, n.5
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 22 Sept. 7/3: You had better lay off that stem, or get a new chef to cook your hop.
at chef, n.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 22 Sept. 7/3: One old bowser [...] swung on my roof with her mush and put my thatch to the cleaners.
at take to the cleaners (v.) under cleaners, n.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 13 Mar. 17/2: Policeman Brown was a foxy cop / [...] / Behind a tree he’d lie in wait / [...] / He’d copper the fast and copper the slow, / Then up before the judge he’d go.
at copper, v.2
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 13 Feb. 20/2: You ding-rotted swab, out of diss house und no monkey business! [...] So! Ding-bust it!
at dingbust, v.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 13 Feb. 20/2: You ding-rotted swab, out of diss house und no monkey business! [...] So! Ding-bust it!
at dingbusted, adj.
[US] Spokane Press (WA) 28 Feb. 6/2: ‘The Wyoming Whoop‘ [is] the name of a newspaper [...] in Dinktown.
at Dinktown, n.
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