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[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 76: That was bear-meat [...] the real bear-meat. Say, we went a few, didn’t we, Smoke.
at few, a, adv.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 10 🌐 You’re almighty swift with business up here on the hill.
at almighty, adv.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 232: ‘It’s knock down an’ drag out an’ plow through!’ Shorty yelled in his partner’s ear.
at knock down and drag out, v.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 170: The table stood close to the fire, and the blamed wheel’s warped. [...] He couldn’t have bucked for sour apples at any other table.
at for sour apples (adv.) under apple, n.1
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 14: Tell him to kick around and get some gink to turn out a live serial, and to put into it the real romance and glamour and colour of San Francisco.
at kick around, v.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 167: You’ve sure got the world by the slack of it’s pants. They’s millions in it.
at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 8 🌐 Copper! Raw, red copper! An’ they think it‘s gold! [...] The poor devils banked everything on it.
at bank on (v.) under bank, n.1
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 30: Cariboo Charley. He was just pointed out to me. He struck it big on Klondike.
at big, adv.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 26: He’s the editor and proprietor and all-around big squeeze of the Billow. What he says goes. He can make ghosts walk.
at big squeeze (n.) under big, adj.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 8 🌐 You an’ me has a month’s grub [...] which is one hundred an’ eighty meals. Here’s two hundred Indians, with real, full-grown appetites. How the blazes can we give’m one meal even?
at how the blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 9 🌐 ‘I don’t like to wallop a sick man,’ Shorty explained, his fist doubled menacingly. ‘But I’d wallop his block off if it’d make him well.’.
at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 12 🌐 These is the real, blowed-in-the-glass, wild Indians.
at blown-in-the-glass, adj.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 164: We’ll put a roulette table in a back room of the Elkhorn, pool the bank against you, and have you buck us.
at buck, v.2
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 10 🌐 That geezer you was dickerin’ with is a big buck Indian. Am I right?
at buck, adj.1
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (2007) 192: Wild Water swung the bunco game timed to seconds. I hadn’t no time to examine them eggs.
at bunco, n.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew 287: When it comes to fi-nance we’re sure the fattest suckers that ever fell for the get-rich-quick bunco.
at bunco, n.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 187: You laid among the trees an’ bushwhacked him.
at bushwhack, v.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 7 🌐 Why, if we can ever get our hands on all that bottom, we’ll make Rockefeller look like thirty cents.
at like thirty cents (adj.) under thirty cents, n.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 30: ‘What’s chechaquo mean?’ Kit asked. ‘You’re one; I’m one,’ was the answer. ‘Maybe I am, but you’ve got to search me. What does it mean?’ ‘Tender-foot.’.
at cheechako, n.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 10 🌐 Shorty cocked his head triumphantly toward a tin pail of eggs on the table. ‘Seven dollars a clatter, though,’ he confessed.
at clatter, n.1
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 62: They’ll drop you cold as soon as they hit Dawson.
at cold, adv.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 8 🌐 The craps-player, his money still lying on the table and his slippery Joe Cotton still uncaptured, had come over to Smoke.
at Joe Cotton, n.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 7 🌐 ‘Well, gosh-dash my dingbats, if you haven’t beaten me to it,’ Carson swore whimsically.
at dingbat, n.6
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 84: We’ve got agreements. If they fire us they’ve got to divvy up grub to last us through the winter.
at divvy, v.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 10 🌐 When it comes to finance we’re sure the fattest suckers that ever fell for the get-rich-quick bunco.
at fall for, v.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 11 🌐 I bet you the drinks, Smoke, if you an’ me flop around the corner quick [...] an’ then turn back from around the next corner, that we run into him a-hikin’ hell-bent.
at flop, v.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 7 🌐 My wife knew I’d strike it. I’ve got faith enough, but hers knocks mine galleywest.
at galley-west, adv.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 92: Oh, you’ll get yours as soon as I finish with your pardner, you little hog-wallopin’ snooper, you.
at get one’s (v.) under get, v.
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 88: ‘If we’re goin’ to Dawson, we got to take charge of this here outfit.’ They looked at each other. ‘It’s a go,’ said Kit, as his hand went out in ratification.
at go, n.1
[US] J. London Smoke Bellew Pt 11 🌐 ‘You can go some,’ Saltman acknowledged [...] as he sat astride Smoke’s chest. ‘But I down you every time.’.
at go, v.
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