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[US] J.C. Holmes Horn 221: Kelcy Crane is blowing goofy, goofy things, Baby, [...] Have you caught him yet?
at catch, v.1
[US] J.C. Holmes Horn 133: Man, you kill me, I’ll die, I’ll crump...
at crump (out), v.
[US] J.C. Holmes Horn 18: For ‘cutting’ was, after all, only the Indian wrestling of lost boyhood summers, and the trick was getting your man off balance.
at cut, v.5
[US] J.C. Holmes Horn 159: He lived on dehorn alcohol, mulligan.
at dehorn, n.
[US] J.C. Holmes Horn 215: Anyone makes a hassle this next set, I’ll show ’em put-downs if that’s all they’re after.
at put-down, n.
[US] J.C. Holmes Horn 56: I got no eyes for that now.
at no eyes under eye, n.
[US] J.C. Holmes Horn 220: I fell by here looking for a chick.
at fall by (v.) under fall, v.3
[US] J.C. Holmes Horn 55: So then this square cab driver hung me up for a buck getting over here to Geordie’s.
at hang up, v.1
[US] J.C. Holmes Horn 129: The grandiloquent county politician stumping the hustings with a barrel of ‘hard’.
at hard, n.
[US] J.C. Holmes Horn 40: But he ain’t good enough any more to justify this kind of hype.
at hype, n.1
[US] J.C. Holmes Horn 56: I want to cut out, and make KayCee for a while.
at K.C., n.
[US] J.C. Holmes Horn 224: Two o.z.’s of ripe Pachuco pot.
at o.z., n.
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