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[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 13: I could walk around with a lot of rhinestones on and look sneerful at all the big butter-and-eggers out front.
at butter-and-egg man, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 5: Well, I got to go out and pour a lot of banana oil into Miss Schwartz’s ear.
at banana oil (n.) under banana, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 157: They couldn’t be as enthusiastic as they were unless I was Jolson or they were blotto.
at blotto, adj.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 163: Probably one of those Park Avenue buds.
at bud, n.2
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 235: I naturally felt bumly.
at bumly, adj.1
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 55: Aw, go button your nose!
at button one’s lip, v.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 23: We went over to a chop suey and had chicken chow mein.
at chop suey, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 106: He’s cracked on a little night club dancer.
at cracked, adj.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 162: Didn’t I try to find out! [...] When the girls got up to go out I excused myself and went out, too, to get an earful.
at get an earful (v.) under earful, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl iv 52: Eight femmes and a pair of male hoofers take up the burden when she is off.
at femme, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 163: Dough. She must be filthy with it.
at filthy with under filthy, adj.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 14: You might just as well bang them on the nose with the truth at the start [...] sometimes they outguess a poor girl, if she starts to play fox.
at play the fox (v.) under fox, n.1
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 118: They’re running my poor Jimmy out of gas.
at gas, n.1
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 167: Goofus! There’s Jack, Crazy about you.
at goofus, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 46: Oh boy, what a lot of hooey!
at hooey, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 13: Sammy Lee didn’t think my hoofing was so hot.
at hoofing, n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 47: ‘You’d be plumb nerts’ says he, ‘to think of it.’.
at nerts, adj.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 23: Hoofing for a lot of plastered goofs in that bum night club.
at plastered, adj.1
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 88: Then here’s the racket. In the first place, I know where Dixie is.
at racket, n.1
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 99: I wish Denny had some of his S.A. Denny is just too sweet and orderly to be thrilling.
at S.A., n.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 153: Well, do you know what time you came in here? Five o’clock. And snozzled. Were you snozzled!
at snozzled, adj.
[US] J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 97: I suppose I could start off and tell you some little ones and gradually lead up to some whoppers.
at whopper, n.
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