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[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 62: So this is the way you have been deceiving me! [...] with a ball and chain waiting for you at home.
at ball and chain (n.) under ball, n.1
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 46: They had you stretched out on the curbing waiting for the booby wagon.
at booby wagon (n.) under booby, n.1
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 20: ‘Say, bozo,’ Cutie said, handing him an O.O. [...] ‘what kind of racket is this?’.
at bozo, n.1
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 40: For a few minutes this flat wheeled caboose of gloom couldn’t figure out which part of him was his feet.
at caboose, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 22: Before little Herman was nine years old, everybody knew he was the lily’s whiskers.
at cat’s whiskers, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 33: Herman handed the man twenty-five charlies.
at charlie, n.2
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 37: St. Vitus himself would have copped fourth prize as a study in still life alongside of her.
at cop, v.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 46: You pull a half nelson on me and I am down for the count when the bouncers step in.
at down for the count under count, n.3
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 37: At ten o’clock Morris had taken the count.
at take the count (v.) under count, n.3
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 7: Cutie was a shapely Mamma of twenty-one summers.
at cutie, n.1
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 12: This pious dingelberry had only one eye.
at dingleberry, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 7: She offered an eyeful which would make a brass monkey run a temperature of 209 degrees.
at eyeful, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 24: Then slowly in his dream the windmill and the snake did a fadeout.
at fade-out, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 12: The way our hero lost his gig was like this.
at gig, n.8
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 22: A gimp like you takes my appetite away for a week.
at gimp, n.2
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 23: The kippered herring at his side opened one of its glims.
at glim, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 65: He was a mush head and a wet smack.
at mush-head, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 61: ‘Hot baby!’ cries Cutie, ‘you don’t mean that you are married and that this bag of prunes is your wife?’.
at hot baby! (excl.) under hot, adj.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 22: You poor kidney-footed clown.
at kidney-foot (n.) under kidney, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 39: ‘Why the shredded wheat over the kisser?’ inquired our heroine eyeing the false mustache.
at kisser, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 48: You have had a large evening and there’s no use trying to stage an encore at this hour.
at large, adj.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 46: We will stop first at my little love nest and lay up for a few repairs.
at lay up with (v.) under lay, v.1
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 37: Two lounge serpents named Morris and Bartlett.
at lounge lizard (n.) under lounge, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 20: ‘Say, bozo,’ Cutie said, handing him an O.O. [...] what kind of racket is this?’.
at o.o., n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 13: ‘God,’ said our one-eyed Pilgrim [...] ‘has smote me for my sins.’.
at pilgrim, n.1
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 46: All you do is sink your teeth in my shoulder and make noises like a basket full of hungry pooches.
at pooch, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 62: Before anybody could sandbag her she had run the hat pin into Cutie’s left chest.
at sandbag, v.1
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 13: He shelled out the seven and a half smackers.
at smackers, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 40: As his smeller leaned against Cutie’s corn colored hair, he let out one gasp and swallowed his false mustache.
at smeller, n.
[US] Hecht & Bodenheim Cutie 11: He was a wet smack from the take off.
at wet smack (n.) under wet, adj.1
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