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The Drifting Cowboy choose

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[US] W. James Drifting Cowboy (1931) 73: I [...] traded off my angora chaps for ‘bat wings’.
at batwing, n.
[US] W. James Drifting Cowboy (1931) 146: That old biscuit eater had used horse hunting as an excuse to keep me around.
at biscuit-eater (n.) under biscuit, n.1
[US] W. James Drifting Cowboy (1931) 146: The regular grub line rider is nothing but a range bum.
at grub-liner (n.) under grub, n.2
[US] W. James Drifting Cowboy (1931) 231: If [...] he’d been President of the United States and busted the two-term law all to hell.
at all to hell under hell, n.
[US] W. James Drifting Cowboy (1931) 17: I’ll be dag-gone if I didn’t catch myself wishing I was in his warm moccasins.
at moccasins, n.
[US] W. James Drifting Cowboy (1931) 218: He layed in hospital with a broken jaw [...] and when he come out he was packing a full set of false teeth.
at pack, v.1
[US] W. James Drifting Cowboy (1931) 126: Never let me see your homely phizog again.
at phiz, n.1
[US] W. James Drifting Cowboy (1931) 117: I drawed a pot gutted runt by the name of Big Enuff.
at pot-gutted (adj.) under pot, n.1
[US] W. James Drifting Cowboy (1931) 24: I didn’t let her know what was going on in my think tank.
at think-tank (n.) under think, v.
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