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[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 9 Jan. 3/1: ‘You’re on,’ he said strongly.
at on, adv.1
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 5 July 2/2: [headline] Wise Janes Nab Candy Says Poet.
at candy, n.
[UK] Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 5 July 2/2: [headline] Wise Janes Nab Candy Says Poet.
at nab, v.1
[US] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 17 Jan. 3/4: [headline] Bally Amerian [sic] Slang A Bit Thick. Eh, What?
at bally, adj.
[UK] Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 27 May 6/1: American League pitchers feared Joe Harris [...] How he can murder a curve ball.
at murder, v.
[UK] Chillicothe (MO) Constitution 17 Jan. 3/4: [headline] Bally Amerian [sic] Slang A Bit Thick. Eh, What?
at what?, phr.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] (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.
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