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[US] McClure’s Mag. I 767/2: You said it, kiddo! I’ve found it and I’m shaking it.
at kiddo, n.
[US] McClure’s Mag. 1 342/1: I can light in [...] any town you want to name, and in five minutes I’ll buy a bottle of white mule. Sure — right over the counter. Don’t have to sneak down a back alley nor nothin’.
at white mule (n.) under white, adj.
[US] McClure’s Mag. X 541/2: Mind you, any monkey work’ll get you into more trouble [DA].
at monkey work (n.) under monkey, n.
[US] ‘O. Henry’ in McClure’s Mag. 14-15 142: We five – me, Deaf Pete, Blinky, Goggles, and Indiana Tom.
at blink, n.1
[US] McLure’s Mag. 12 307: Why, Mr. Hebron, I’d rather see a scab run her than that lightning-jerker.
at lightning jerker (n.) under lightning, n.
[Ind] Kipling Kim in McClure’s Mag. 463/1: ‘All police-constables are nut-cuts; but the police-wallahs are the worst. Hai, my son, thou hast never learned all that since thou earnest from Belait (Europe)’.
at Blighty, n.
[Ind] Kipling Kim in McClure’s Mag. Mar. 463/1: ‘That is a nut-cut (rogue),’ she said. ‘All police-constables are nut-cuts; but the police-wallahs are the worst’.
at nut-cut, n.
[US] McLure’s Mag. XVII 380: Do you, Kyle, take this woman, Loys, to have and keep track of, come hell or high water, her heirs and assigns for ever?
at come hell or high water under hell or high water, n.
[US] McClure’s Mag. Dec. 152: [Platt’s] delight in music still remains the soft spot which he turns to humanity [DA].
at soft spot (n.) under soft, adj.
[US] McClure’s mag. 190: At first, if Jimmy-hit-the-bottle felt any emotion, whether joy, resentment, terror, or anything man can feel, his face did not show it.
at hit, v.
[US] McClure’s Mag. Dec. 219/1: I tole the conductor I wanted off right away at the corner already.
at already, adv.
[US] McClure’s Mag. 23 334: ‘Well, wouldn’t that crimp you!’ he commented disgustedly. ‘You certainly must never see him after that’.
at wouldn’t that crimp you? under crimp, v.1
[US] McClure’s Mag. Mar. 557: We jest made a ‘Mexican stand-off’ – lost our money, but saved our lives – and mighty lucky at that [DARE].
at Mexican standoff (n.) under Mexican, adj.
[US] McClure’s Mag. Apr. 661/1: Kelly and his ‘stable’ as the retinue of rubbers and ‘workout’ boxers are known to the devotees of pugilism, had been at Ocean View [DA].
at stable, n.
[US] McClure’s Mag. Sept. 466: I don’t want to see a brass button on this block until I give the word. It would mean a riot .
at brass buttons (n.) under brass, adj.1
[US] McClure’s Mag. 24 25: I might as well go be a buck nun and be done with it.
at buck nun (n.) under buck, n.1
[US] McClure’s Mag. 25 26/1: ‘Got the face-ache?’ demanded the second mate, rising with a clenched fist. ‘No, sir,’ stammered the steward [...] Doyle hauled off and floored him. ‘Got the face-ache now? [...] Well, you’ll get it every time you go screwing your mouth up behind an officer’.
at face-ache (n.) under face, n.
[US] McClure’s Mag. June 121/1: ‘Where’d you get the coat?’ I asked the Mex [DA].
at Mex, n.
[US] M. Kelly in McClure’s Mag. May–Oct. [title] A Soul Above Buttons.
at have a soul above buttons (v.) under soul, n.1
[US] in McClure’s Mag. Feb. 379: What’s this gig about militia? [HDAS].
at gig, n.1
[US] McClure’s Mag. 32 98/1: Better bust away from that Domino bunk artist, an’ square yourself to home.
at bunk artist (n.) under bunk, n.2
[US] McClure’s Mag. 37 654: Wappenstein commanded Tupper to ‘get’ the ‘Midway’ — the largest ‘crib house’ in Seattle — and ‘open up’ .
at crib-house (n.) under crib, n.1
[US] McClure’s Mag. 38 270: When your pa learns that you kids has been puttin’ up such shenanigans on me jes’ because he’s off to the races, it’ll be wholesome for the spot o’ you where Maggie wore the beads — not!
at get it where Maggie wore the beads (v.) under get it, v.
[US] McClure’s Mag. Oct. in DN IV:ii 133: ‘Do you know who that bunk is you just – ’ ‘That “bunk,” as you roughly term him,’ said the young man in a modulated barytone, ‘is Mr. Hotchkiss.’.
at bunco man (n.) under bunco, n.
[US] McClure’s Mag. Mar. 119: Is that gold or Mex, dear?
at Mex, n.
[US] R.W. Lardner in McClure’s Mag. Aug. 21/2: He’s a nut all right on the singin’ stuff... He’s a pretty good guy, even if he is crazy.
at nut, n.2
[US] McClure’s Mag. 54 54: We ran a great, tall pig, a regular heller, right into her lair. She was as big as a Shetland pony.
at heller (n.) under hell, n.
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