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[US] St John’s Herald (AZ) 21 Feb. 6/4: We have had quite an influx of cow-punchers [...] filling up on ‘liquid crime’ of the vintage of 1888.
at liquid crime (n.) under liquid, adj.
[US] St. John’s Herald (Apache Co., AZ) 7 Mar. 2/4: A few chumps accidentally get into the legislature who are not gifted with sufficient sense to pound sand into a rat-hole.
at pound sand in a rathole (v.) under pound, v.2
[US] St John’s Herald (Apache Co., AZ) 1 May 1/4: Gettin’ down on my prayer bones and taffying the Lord up.
at prayer-bones (n.) under prayer, n.
[US] St John’s Herald (AZ) 31 July 2/5: Engineer Rumbaugh is better known as ‘Peggy’ from the fact that he has an artificial limb.
at peggy, n.1
[US] St John’s Herald (AZ) 8 Apr. 2/1: Up at the mountains it was snowing to beat the cars.
at beat the cars (v.) under beat, v.
[US] St John’s Herald (Apache Co., AZ) 5 Jan. 3/1: I might have married [...] if I’d been willin’ to grubstake some shiftless, putty-faced monkey like yerself.
at putty-brained (adj.) under putty, n.
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