1890 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 7 Oct. 4/2: Australians [...] are enriching the language with plenty of slang phrases. When a thing is moribund in Australia, they say colloquially, ‘It is going bum’.at bum, adv.
1890 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 14 Sept. 8/5: Up jumped the organist from her seat and scooted (that’s slang) across the chancel.at scoot, v.
1907 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 10 May 4/3: ‘He says he’d rather go to the electric gallows than to an insane asylum.’ ‘They call them nut factories don’t they, Miss Chunky?’.at nut factory (n.) under nut, n.2
1914 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 2 Jan. 3/3: Jim, he lifted a leather from a bull who was standing in a hallway there at headquarters!at lift, v.
1914 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 11 Jan. 3/2: Do you realize what you’re doing? Don’t go to smash, Dick. Just at the beginning of your life.at go (to) smash (v.) under smash, n.1
1917 Chillicothe Constitution (MO) 26 June 2/2: They threaten to give the government a hot time ejecting them.at give someone a hot time (v.) under time, n.
1919 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 5 July 2/2: [headline] Wise Janes Nab Candy Says Poet.at candy, n.
1919 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 28 Aug. 2/1: Most all commodities and necessities are, to use a little slang, ‘out of sight.’ The profiteers are getting the best of it.at out of sight, adj.
1924 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 14 Nov. 1/7: The book purporting to give what is known in American slang as ‘inside stuff’ is certain to cause a sensation.at inside, adj.
1925 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 9 Dec. 2/2: ‘Blubber a bibful’ or ‘crocodile’s adenoids’ are slang phrases that are offensive and condemned to die.at cat’s whiskers, n.
1927 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 17 Jan. 3/4: [headline] Bally Amerian [sic] Slang A Bit Thick. Eh, What?at bally, adj.
1927 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 27 May 6/1: American League pitchers feared Joe Harris [...] How he can murder a curve ball.at murder, v.
1927 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 17 Jan. 3/4: [headline] Bally Amerian [sic] Slang A Bit Thick. Eh, What?at what?, phr.
1944 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution-Trib. 11 Aug. 2/3: He was neither a ‘max’ (top rank in studies) nor a ‘goat’ (in lower sections of his class).at max, n.
1944 Chillicothe (MO) Constitution-Trib. 11 Aug. 2/3: On your leave may there be [...] lots of skags, full moons and plenty of Coca Cola.at skag, n.
1963 (ref. to 1931) Chillicothe (MO) Constitution-Trib. 2 Oct. 1/2: Valachi said the ‘Boss of Bosses,’ Salvatore Maranzano told him there was going to be another gang war, a ‘mattress.’.at mattress, n.