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The Varmint choose

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[US] O. Johnson Varmint 308: I’ve got a couple of A. No. 1 millionaire cigars.
at A-1, adj.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 310: I mean that there are some fellows here who are worth while and some who are not, [...] who don’t amount to a row of pins.
at hill of beans, a, phr.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 54: If any of these smart Alecs can get the best of me [...] he’ll have to be up with the chickens!
at smart aleck, n.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 14: ‘Doc,’ I says. ‘I wish you’d gimme the East and West [...]’ ‘Just what is the East and West?’ he asks me. ‘Why, look me over!’ I explains.
at give somone the east and west (v.) under east and west, n.2
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 396: He’s a thorough-going, out-and-out little varmint!
at out-and-out, adj.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 254: It was awful white!
at awful, adv.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 114: I’ll show you whether I’m afraid of you, you big bullies! You big stuff, you, come on!
at big stuff (n.) under big, adj.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 58: I remember that coat gag now [...] I bit once – way back in ’89.
at bite, v.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 66: ‘You paying cash?’ said Macnooder [...] ‘Sure!’ said Stover. ‘Well, call it one bone, then.’.
at bone, n.4
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 358: You know you said you were going to clean off the whole slate with Al, sure as Turkey boned up.
at bone up (v.) under bone, n.4
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 295: How many bots did you bring?
at bot, n.2
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 290: ‘I say, Slops, what would they do if they caught us?’ ‘Bounce us.’.
at bounce, v.1
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 29: Assaulting a teacher – how broo-tal.
at brutal, adj.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 13: Say, Bub [...] You’re goin’ to have a great time at this little backwoods school.
at bub, n.3
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 15: Who’s the old buck, anyhow?
at old buck (n.) under buck, n.1
[US] Owen Johnson Varmint 203: You’ll have to buckle down and study.
at buckle down (v.) under buckle, v.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 287: And Tough McCarty, what a bully chap – bully! We’re going to be friends – pals – what a bully fellow! Everything is bully – everything!
at bully, adj.1
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 127: Why you’re the cuss that smeared the Angel, swallowed the Canary, and bumped Tough McCarty, all at once.
at bump, v.1
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 82: The Cleve House representatives were a lot of dubs, butterfingers and fumblers, anyhow!
at butterfingers (n.) under butter, n.1
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 59: ‘I mean that it don’t button, you young pirate,’ said Al scornfully [...] ‘When you try anything as slick as that again you want to be sure the real owner ain’t been around.’.
at button, v.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 71: This is the best thing in the whole caboodle.
at whole caboodle (n.) under caboodle, n.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 18: In my country [...] we call a man who uses a brake a candy dude.
at candy, adj.4
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 217: There was a slick coot by the name of Chops Van Dyne, who got strapped and hit upon a scheme for decoying the shekels.
at strapped (for cash), adj.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 85: ‘You quitter!’ ‘You chickenheart!’.
at chickenheart, n.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 61: Save half your chink, get everything second hand.
at chink, n.1
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 391: Sis is going to put the clamps on that [W&F].
at put the clamps on (v.) under clampers, n.
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 22: Why, old Cocky-wax, put this in your pipe and smoke it.
at cock-a-wax (n.) under cock, n.3
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 289: Why, thankee, I’ve been aching for just a good old coffin-nail.
at coffin nail, n.2
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 272: I’ve got to teach that red-haired coot a lesson [...] He’s a little too confident.
at coot, n.1
[US] O. Johnson Varmint 70: Cracky, what a prize!
at cracky!, excl.
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