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[US] Lippincott’s Mag. (Phila.) VI 465: Let him get a nigger fiddler and plenty of baldface whisky, and give forth the news that he expects his friends.
at baldface (whisky), n.
[US] Lippincott’s Mag. (Phila.) Mar. 289: Great Scott! I’d rather give my name to a horticultural triumph like that there, than be Senator.
at great Scott! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) July 102: For it very frequently happens that the best students do a good deal of ‘calicoing’ [DA].
at calico, v.
[US] Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) Aug. 191: You’ll come along too, won’t you? [...] Dutch treat, vous savez! [F&H].
at Dutch treat, n.
[US] Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) Aug. 291: The students gather in the recitation-rooms, where they ‘rush’ or ‘flunk,’ according as they have studied the night before or been ‘out on a lark’ [DA].
at flunk, v.
[US] Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) Oct. 575: The reputation of a ‘grub’ is hardly a desirable one at the present day [DA].
at grub, n.2
[US] Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) July 141: Shame on thee to say’t, thou bold-faced jig [F&H].
at jig, n.1
[US] Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) Aug. 291: The students gather in the recitation-rooms, where they ‘rush’ or ‘flunk,’ according as they have studied the night before or been ‘out on a lark’ [DA].
at on a lark under lark, n.2
[US] Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) Aug. 241: Popped the question, and got the mitten [F&H].
at get the mitten (v.) under mitten, n.
[US] Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) Aug. ‘A Land of Love’ 231: Such monkey-shines! It proves that you have no serious interest in science [F&H].
at monkey shine, n.
[US] Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) Aug. 291: The students gather in the recitation-rooms, where they ‘rush’ or ‘flunk,’ according as they have studied the night before or been ‘out on a lark’ [DA].
at rush, v.
[US] Lippincott’s Oct. 447: Hang me if she isn’t always on the plain, or at a hop, with one of those twin kids!
at hang me! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[US] Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) Oct. 500: He’d lick the duffer as used Hank ill [F&H].
at duffer, n.1
[US] Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) Feb. 285: Hoppy-eyed an’ full of hash-sheesh [HDAS].
at hoppy, adj.2
[US] Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) Oct. 503: When I lamps on top to see what was going on, there was Fat .
at lamp, v.2
[US] E.L. Sabin ‘What Did Duncan Do?’ in Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. (Phila.) Dec. 724: The subject was not mentioned at breakfast; nor was anything else, in particular, mentioned. Duncan was extremely polite, and passed her the toast when ordinarily he would have permitted her to help herself (true, it was a small table, for two, and easily spanned, but she objected to a ‘boarding-house reach’), and was wholly affable.
at boarding-house reach, n.
[US] Lippincott’s Mag. 85 333: He made us see how ridiculous and out-of-date it was to be wicked—what callow kid-stuff it was for grown men to play the brute.
at kid stuff, n.
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