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[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 34: Murf [...] you’re aces up with me from this moment.
at aces, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 56: Here was my chance to confess all and do the retreat from Moscow act.
at do the — act (v.) under act, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 75: Aw, say, Foxy Gran’, ring de tinkler on yourself!
at ring the bell on (v.) under bell, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 30: Yo’ all was big Casino on the Eastern tracks, suh!
at big casino, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 83: Are you handing me a line of bogus conversation?
at bogus, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 21: I’ve handed the good-night signal to the bookies and [...] so far as the turtles are concerned the six o’clock whistle blows perpetually.
at bookie, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 17: Bow yourself out of D.Q. & N. There are doings.
at bow out, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 23: For four years the Bookies broke it off in me till I looked like a porcupine in distress.
at break it off, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 15: Uncle Peter put it all over old Bill Gray whenever they bumped.
at bump, v.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 49: If I don’t get ’pology I’ll bust out crying!
at bust out, v.4
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 16: It’s a moral that it goes to 10 before it hits the ceiling.
at hit the ceiling, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 76: Say! what is dis, a chin-chin to a show down?
at chin, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 74: ‘Aw, choke up! choke up,’ the stranger advised.
at choke, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 30: He chummed up with yo’ all at Gravesend.
at chum along with (v.) under chum, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 76: I was trying to cook up a chance to hand a line of talk to de main Stake.
at cook up, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 28: I don’t see why he should come back after the croak and haunt me.
at croak, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 14: He grabbed his lid, shook a day-day to the Street, and dipped for the woods.
at day-day under day, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 56: I promised Tom faithfully that I wouldn’t buy a benzine buggy until he invents the dingus — that’s the name of it! The dingus [...] is something like a bifftoid, only its deeper.
at dingus, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 14: He grabbed his lid, shook a day-to-day to the Street, and dipped for the woods.
at dip, v.4
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 83: I catch your words, Murf, but the meaning is away to the fritz [...] what’s doing?
at what’s doing?, phr.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 17: Bow yourself out of D.Q. & N. There are doings.
at doings, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 32: That was the evening I win $8 [...] It was my first take-down in six weeks.
at take-down, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 35: I couldn’t possibly [...] leave that kind of a man flat without the price of a dish of beans in his rowdy-dows.
at rowdy-dows, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 40: Nominate your eats.
at eats, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 104: Then and there I ’fessed up everything from Alpha to Omega.
at fess, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 44: Just then I got a flash of Dike Lawrence bearing down in our direction.
at flash, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 75: Aw, say, Foxy Gran’, ring de tinkler on yourself!
at foxy grandpa (n.) under foxy, adj.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 83: I catch your words, Murf, but the meaning is away to the fritz.
at on the fritz (adj.) under fritz, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 79: Isn’t it wonderful how he can make people believe that there isn’t any furniture broken in his garret.
at garret, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Out for the Coin 17: Say, you’re handing me the same line of gas gab that Uncle Peter threw at me this morning.
at gassy, adj.1
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