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Tiffin Tribune choose

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[US] Tiffin Trib. (OH) 14 Nov. 1/7: he went in, backed down, hacked, cut and slashed, lickety-split, with his long spear.
at lickety-split, adv.
[US] Tiffin Trib. (OH) 14 Nov. 1/7: Four ‘’prentice’ boys and five spindle-shanked men.
at spindleshanks, n.
[US] Tiffin Trib. (OH) 14 Nov. 1/7: Captain of the ‘supes’ ath the Albany theater.
at supe, n.
[US] Tiffin Trib. (OH) 10 June 3/4: Talk right out like a man [...] call on everybody to rally to it. Wake up! Shake off the fleas and shell out.
at shake the fleas out of one’s pants (v.) under shake, v.
[US] Tiffin Trib. (OH) 28 Jan. 4/1: Get up, you little carrot-head!
at carrothead (n.) under carrot, n.
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