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[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 96: Why, he can pull a Raw One in mixed company and all the ladies’ll laugh their heads off.
at pull a..., v.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 152: That’ll teach the grouches and smart alecks to respect the He-man.
at smart aleck, n.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 53: You don’t suppose it’s any novelty to me to find that we hustlers, that think we’re so all-fired successful, aren’t getting much out of it?
at all-fired, adv.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 97: They can’t talk about anything but the weather and the ne-oo Ford, by heckalorum!
at -alorum, sfx
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 229: I know how to hop those birds! I just give um the north and south and ask um, ‘Say, who do you think you’re talking to?’.
at north and south, the, n.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 250: Do you defend a lot of hoodlums that are trying to take the bread and butter away from our families?
at bread and butter, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 140: Shoot the up and down to Jackson.
at up-and-down, the, n.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 294: What’s this I hear about some song and dance you gave Colonel Snow about not wanting to join the G.C.L.?
at give someone a song and dance (v.) under song and dance, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 50: They’d lie right down and die if they knew Sid had anted up a hundred and twenty-six bones.
at ante (up), v.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 42: If I was fool enough never to whoop the ante I’d get the credit for lying anyway!
at up the ante (v.) under ante, n.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 87: A bunch of hot-air artists like Frank and Littlefield.
at -artist, sfx
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 68: A fourflushing old back-number like Chan Mott.
at back number (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 97: No wonder they get [...] so balled-up in their thinking!
at balled-up, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 102: That boy Paul’s worth all these ballyhooing highbrows put together.
at ballyhoo, v.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 239: Saw a bang-up cabaret in New York.
at bang-up, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 148: I have tried to sketch the Real He-man, the fellow with Zip and Bang.
at bang, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 209: It goes right into Beantown, and New York and Washington.
at Bean Town (n.) under bean, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 110: This beast, this conductor hollered at me.
at beast, n.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 15: Ted’s new bee is he’d like to be a movie actor.
at bee, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 53: Course I wouldn’t beef about it to the fellows at the Roughnecks’ Table.
at beef, v.1
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 293: The three men abruptly turned their beefy backs.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 146: I been trying to get into this darned little hammock ever since eight bells!
at bell, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 99: I tip my benny to him!
at benny, n.1
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 299: Bad indigestion? Shall I get you some bicarb?
at bicarb, n.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 257: I happen to know what a big noise Senny Doane is.
at big noise (n.) under big, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 147: Busier than a bird-dog, not wasting a lot of good time in day-dreaming or going to sassiety teas or kicking about things that are none of his business, but putting the zip into some store or profession or art.
at bird dog, n.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 152: These blab-mouth, fault-finding, pessimistic, cynical University teachers.
at blabbermouth, adj.
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 178: It’s up to the dominie to blow the three of us to a dinner.
at blow, v.2
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 64: I make eight thousand a year to his seven! But I don’t blow it all in and waste it and throw it around, the way he does! [Ibid.] 72: He blows in his father’s hard-earned money.
at blow in, v.1
[US] S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 54: Yuh, you’re an old blow-hard, Georgie.
at blowhard, n.1
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