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[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 46: It looks to me like a cinchalorum, Bunch, a regular cinchalorum!
at -alorum, sfx
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 11: I fell asleep at the switch and somebody put the white lights all over me.
at asleep at the switch, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 38: I could see myself in the giggle-giggle ward in a bat house.
at bat house (n.) under bat, n.5
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 12: I blame Bunch Jefferson for putting the bug in my Central.
at bug, n.4
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 51: To-morrow I’m going to town to buy a bull dog revolver, maybe a bull dog and a revolver.
at bulldog, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 94: If I wasn’t in a daffy house and him nothin’ but a bug, it’s the weight of that chair he’d feel over his bald spot.
at daffy house (n.) under daffy, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 14: I squeezed into the thirst parlor and bathed my injured feelings with sarsaparilla.
at thirst factory, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 13: I made up my mind one day I’d run down to the Flatfish Factory and drag a few honest dollars away from the Bookmakers.
at flat fish (n.) under flat, adj.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 74: I [...] heard myself telling her I was nothing but a fawn-colored four-flush.
at four-flusher, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 12: Every horse that finished last gave me the trembling lip as he crawled home, well aware of the fact that I had caught him with the goods.
at goods, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 94: Th’ ould goosehead.
at goose-head, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 18: As you have stated [...] large bundles of Green Fellows have severed their home ties and tiptoed into the elsewhere.
at green boys (n.) under green, adj.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 59: He didn’t even whimper when the village Hawkshaw snapped the bracelets on his wrist.
at hawkshaw, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 58: Bunch looked at me reproachfully, but never opened his head.
at open one’s head (v.) under head, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 60: I [...] rushed away to formulate some plan to get Bunch out of hock.
at in hock under hock, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 23: You wouldn’t trail along after Your Uncle Bunch and get next to the candy man, would you?
at get next to (v.) under next (to), adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 99: I felt sure he’d be tickled to a stand-still-not!
at not!, excl.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 23: ‘Still piking, eh?’ he chuckled; ‘you wouldn’t trail along after Your Uncle Bunch and get next to the candy man, would you?’.
at pike, v.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 57: ‘Down there, eh?’ snorted the country Sherlock, getting on his knees and peering into the depths.
at sherlock, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 54: Surely, not even an amateur cracksman would give himself and the whole snap away unless the provocation was great.
at give the snap away (v.) under snap, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 88: I collaborated with the chair in a hasty squatty-vous!
at squattez-vous, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 16: The next day I hit the track with three sure-fires and a couple of perhapses.
at sure-fire (adj.) under sure, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 56: I puzzled my dizzy think-factory for a way out of the dilemma.
at think factory (n.) under think, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Back to the Woods 63: The yap policeman was for taking Bunch right back to the donjon cell in the rear.
at yap, n.1
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