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[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 28: Indignant meetings to denounce the proposal to let the ‘aggies’ use the North Side Tennis Courts.
at ag, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 195: It’s too bad Arrowsmith goes drinking and helling around and neglecting his family and his patients.
at hell around, v.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 127: He was going to be an obstetrician—or, as the medical students called it technically, a ‘baby-snatcher’.
at baby-snatcher (n.) under baby, n.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 326: Say, Arrowsmith, do you ever get balled up about this saluting?
at ball up, v.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 21: In college Martin had been a ‘barb’ – he had not belonged to a Greek Letter.
at barb, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 75: Did you just want to run away from Mama for a while and we have a bat at the ‘Grand’ together?
at bat, n.3
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 65: The way they bawl out the nurses.
at bawl out, v.1
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 104: Mr. Babbitt has just adorned his thirty-fourth birthday by buying his first benzine buggy.
at benzine buggy, n.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 204: He’s a fine one, he is, to go around blatting that we ought to have more health precautions!
at blat, v.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 109: He wandered by freight trains, on blind baggages, on foot.
at blind, n.2
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 310: Did he tell you about his being a jolly old hero in the blinkin’ war?
at blinking, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 390: Gosh, I’m scared blue!
at blue, adj.1
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 55: I will not put on a hard-boiled collar! I won’t!
at hard-boiled collar (n.) under hard-boiled, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 291: I suppose this Rouncefield Clinic is probably nothing but a gilded boob-trap.
at boob trap (n.) under boob, n.2
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 375: He will do the big boom-boom and so bring us the credit in the newspapers.
at boom, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 10: Don’t be a booze-hoister like me. [Ibid.] 322: Greek, a handsome language spoken by the good old booze-hoisting Hellenes.
at booze-hoister (n.) under booze, n.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 124: When he had, as they put it, ‘cut out his nonsense and buckled down to work’.
at buckle down (v.) under buckle, v.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 167: Doctor, don’t be buffaloed by the unenterprising.
at buffaloed, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 209: We’ll [...] have a good laugh about that bull you made over the smallpox.
at pull a bull (v.) under bull, n.2
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 205: They cackled that he was drunk.
at cackle, v.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 445: This kid used to think Pa Gottlieb was the cat’s pajamas.
at cat’s pyjamas, n.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 455: Why, you old son of a gun! Why, you damn’ old chicken-thief!
at chicken thief (n.) under chicken, n.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 82: Never thought I’d have to live up to a man with a dress-suit and a come-to-Heaven collar.
at come-to-heaven collar (n.) under come, v.1
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 187: We call him for doctoring, not for bossing. Why, the damn’ fool said we ought to burn down our houses – said we were committing a crime if we had the con. here!
at con, n.2
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 228: There’s a lot of [...] foreign slobs that need to be jollied into using their konks about these health biznai.
at conk, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 133: Gottlieb’s gods are the cynics, the destroyers – crapehangers, the vulgar call ’em.
at crape-hanger, n.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 454: Never struck a sweller layout than you’ve got here, except in crook investment-offices.
at crook, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 225: It’s no worse than the cuss-words you’re always using!
at cuss-word (n.) under cuss, n.2
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 259: You know cussed well I’d do anything to avoid —.
at cussed, adv.
[US] S. Lewis Arrowsmith 154: If you’re going to keep me in rags, I’m going to cut out college!
at cut out, v.3
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