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[US] in PADS VI 7: He booted the professor.
at boot, v.2
[US] glossary in Committee for the Adoption of the Constitution, N.Y. (State) in PADS (1952) 65: Nicknames for beer: suds/brew/Milwaukee cider/Dutch milk.
at Milwaukee cider (n.) under Milwaukee, adj.
[US] PADS II 38: Aggie forties [...] Anything very strong; generally used in reference to some-thing to drink.
at agur forty, n.
[US] PADS 76-7818: Aunt Jane n 1 • derog Aunt Thomasina n 1 • derog.
at Aunt Thomasina, n.
[US] PADS II 25: Caigy [...] inflamed with sexual desire.
at cagey, adj.2
[US] PADS 2.29: Ding-dong [...] the penis.
at ding-dong, n.3
[US] in PADS.
at John Henry, n.
[US] (con. 1912) PADS 6 6: Blind [...] To ask questions that students are unprepared to answer.
at blind, v.3
[US] PADS VI 6: Blue hen’s chickens [...] local aristocracy.
at blue hen’s chicken, n.
[US] PADS VI 35: To butt the bull off the bridge. (To do wonders, according to the speaker.).
at buck a bull off the bridge (v.) under buck, v.4
[US] in PADS.
at clod-knocker (n.) under clod, n.1
[US] in PADS.
at clod-masher (n.) under clod, n.1
[US] in PADS.
at clod-masher (n.) under clod, n.1
[US] in PADS [DARE].
at garden house, n.2
[US] (ref. to 1890s) PADS VI 16: Half-strainer [...] A social climber.
at half-strainer, n.
[US] PADS 11 3: Bassackwards [...] totally backwards. A euphemistic Spoonerism.
at bass-ackward(s), adj.
[US] PADS n.p.: Beany [...] a small sling-shot.
at beany, n.1
[US] PADS XI 3: Blobber-mouth [...] A talkative person; one who will not keep a secret.
at blobbermouth, n.
[US] PADS 11 18: Breachy [...] Lecherous.
at breechy, adj.
[US] in PADS.
at bull gravy (n.) under bull, n.1
[US] PADS II 5: Cedar pencil... An unpainted pencil.
at cedar (pencil), n.
[US] in PADS.
at chinch, n.2
[US] (con. c.1920) PADS II 13: As cold as flugens.
at flugens, n.
[US] PADS XI.22 Gully washer.
at gully-washer (n.) under gully, n.2
[US] in PADS [DARE].
at library, n.
[US] PADS n.p.: A [...] half-pint flask, especially of bootleg liquor, is called a bat wing.
at batwing, n.
[US] PADS 14 15: Boer dollar [...] A silver dollar, carried as a lucky piece. Said to have originated among British soldiers during the Boer War.
at beau-dollar (n.) under beau, n.1
[US] PADS 14 16: Box-ankled [...] Having a conformation of legs and feet so that in walking the ankle bones are supposed to strike together.
at box-ankled (adj.) under box, n.1
[US] PADS 13.22: Brand-new, brand-fire-new [...] are all fairly common.
at brand-fire new, adj.
[US] in PADS 14.
at brierpatch child, n.
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