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[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 31 Oct. 2/1: Ye crawling, cringing, hypocrites, you will swear on a stack of Bibles that gen. Taylor is a free soil man, in the face and yes of contrary assertions of his neighbors!
at swear on a stack of Bibles (a mile high) (v.) under swear, v.
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 31 July 2/2: We give him credit for [...] presenting them as he does by an acknoiwledgement that he was ‘gassing’.
at gas, v.1
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 27 Apr. 2/2: If John [...] takes a Sabine slide with the money, what is the draft good for?
at take the Sabine slide (v.) under slide, n.
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 27 Dec. 3/5: He come down ker-whop, about ten feet from hwere we stood.
at kerwhop! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 1 Feb. 2/3: Little Dickey is what Tom Benton called a shaky poke [...] when after a large family of children, the last [...] was known as a shake-poke.
at shake of the bag (n.) under shake, n.1
[US] Detroit Free Press 4 July 4/1: How many a prayer went up, or down, to ‘Old Probabilities,’ who presides at the head of the last paragraph of the weather record, as reported from Washington.
at Old Probabilities (n.) under old, adj.
[US] Detroit Free Press 14 Nov. 2/3: He has sat around the committee-room, like a bump on a log, throwing cold water on enthusiasm.
at like a bump on a log (adv.) under bump, n.2
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 24 Aug. 2/5: A freakish, wayward, winsome bairn, / No bigger than a minute.
at no bigger than a minute (adj.) under big, adj.
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 1 May 10/1: A good ‘brace’ dealer commands a large salary in gambling circles.
at brace game, n.
[US] Detroit Free Press in Ware (1909) 147/1: Experience has shown that iron steamships are very dangerous in case of collisions, so the only plan now to increase ocean travel will be to build vessels entirely of india-rubber. A collision between vessels would hardly do more than give the passengers the grand bounce.
at bounce, n.1
[US] Detroit Free Press in Ware (1909) 242/2: Pa says I am a terror to cats. Every time pa says anything it gives me a new idea. I tell you pa has got a great brain, but sometimes he don’t have it with him.
at terror to cats, n.
[US] Detroit Free Press 5 Jan. 5/3: What in flaxaion do you want.
at flaxation!, excl.
[US] Detroit Free Press 2 Aug. 7/6: ‘Who is that man who has just gone out?’ asked a globe trotter of a barkeeper in Deadwood City [...] ‘That,’ replied the gin-jerker, ’that’s a perfect gentleman’.
at gin-jerker (n.) under gin, n.4
[US] Detroit Free Press Aug. n.p.: [...] He’d wipe up the ground with him; he’d walk all over him [F&H].
at wipe the floor (with), v.
[US] Detroit Free Press Oct. n.p.: Professor Rose, who hit this town last spring, is around calling us a fugitive from justice [F&H].
at hit, v.
[US] Detroit Free Press 8 Dec. n.p.: One man held up six stage passengers in Arizona the other day and robbed them of $2,000 [...] [F&H].
at hold up, v.1
[US] Detroit Free Press 13 Oct. n.p.: Mounted on a white horse, he started on a land-prospecting tour and ran against a party of hold-ups [F&H].
at hold-up, n.
[US] Detroit Free Press 22 Dec. n.p.: Jerry wants a new pop right bad [F&H].
at pop, n.3
[US] Detroit Free Press 8 Dec. n.p.: Won’t it be rather hard at first to give up all the pink suppers and kettledrums and afternoon what-do-you-call-’ems?’ [...] [F&H].
at whatd’youcallhim, n.
[US] in Detroit Free Press n.p.: ‘Then, governor. I see you ten dolIars and raise you the whole State of Vermont.’ The game ceased. Mouth-betting was not a success [B&L].
at mouth bet (n.) under mouth, n.
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 27 Oct. 28/1: It was the wish of their pastor [...] that they should not forget the language that was to him the most musical [...] of Taffyland.
at Taffyland (n.) under Taffy, n.
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 1 Apr. 4/4: Finnegan is what the sports term a ‘tough guy’. He rather enjoys acting as the receiver of a few wallops and wades into top-notchers in the same style.
at tough guy, n.
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 18 Feb. 6/2: Here is a good opportunity for a young man employed who is anxious to make a litle side money.
at side money (n.) under side, adj.
[US] Detroit Free Press 13 May 2/3: Piled up [...] like ciggie butts in Saturday night’s spit box.
at ciggie, n.
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 18 Sept. 6/1: Take these halters and go down in the back forty and find Belgium and Wild Eyes [i.e. horses] and turn them in the paddock.
at back forty (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 19 Mar. 70/6: ‘That tramp has kidnaped Jimmy Clark!’ muttered carl [...] They soon reached the tramp’s shack and rescued him.
at shack, n.2
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 22 Apr. 4/7: On the records [...] are the names of ‘Beerhead’ Becker, ‘Leggy’ kennedy, Cincinnati Slim [...] and others who have been in the house of correction.
at beerhead (n.) under beer, n.
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 20 Jan. 4/4: Edward Hume is a tough elevator jockey whose mount is amusingly refractory.
at elevator jockey (n.) under elevator, n.
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 26 Apr. 82/3: I was back in the old ways, hitting the dope harder than ever.
at hit, v.
[US] Detroit Free Press (MI) 26 Apr. 82/3: A gang of ‘snuffers’ and ‘hypos’ had their hangout around Michigan avenue.
at hypo, n.2
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