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[US] Atchison (KS) Globe 17 Nov. 8/8: Of course Mr. M brought in some new show slang; in speaking of Fay Templeton’s company in Omaha, he said, ‘They acted very bum’.
at bum, adv.
[US] Atchison (KS) Globe 18 Dec. 2/4: I have a letter from a woman out in Cincinatti. [...] Her name is ‘Movingham’, which, I think, is just a little suggestive of ‘Porkopolis’, don’t you?
at Porkopolis, n.
[US] Atchison (KS) Globe 24 Apr. 3/4: He is lucky if he averages eight bits a day.
at bit, n.1
[US] Atchison (Kan.) Globe 24 Apr. 3/4: There’s no more use of trying to ‘knock down’ fares than there is to try and be a bank cashier and keep from eloping to Canada.
at knock down, v.
[US] Atchison Globe (KS) 24 Apr. 3/4: But what can a man do? They know that they have the drop on him, and so does he.
at have the drop (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
[US] Atchison (Kan.) Globe 24 Apr. 3/4: Well, to use a slang expression, I’ve got the ‘g.b.,’ which means that my services are no longer required.
at get the g.b. (v.) under g.b., n.1
[US] Atchison (KS) Daily Globe 28 July 4/6: Sam Jones, the religious tramp [...] has gone south to get fresh southern slang for his St. Joe camp meeting.
at St Joe, n.
[US] Atchison (KS) Globe 24 Apr. 3/4: He must help out cars and ‘supe’ around.
at supe, v.
[US] Atchison (KS) Globe 24 Apr. 3/4: In my opinion it beats the punch all to thunder.
at all to thunder (adv.) under thunder, n.
[US] Atchison (KS) Globe 24 Apr. 3/4: Some fine day he gets his walking papers, and there is no appeal from the judgement.
at walking papers (n.) under walking, n.
[US] Atchison (KS) Daily Globe 19 Feb. 4: When the Last Day comes he will find that his name is Pants.
at pants, n.
[US] Atchison (KS) Daily Globe 13 Apr. 1/6: ‘I held “aces and eights,” a dead man’s hand,’ was a note left by a Leavenworth suicide the other day.
at dead man’s hand (n.) under dead man, n.
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