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[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 96: What are you going to do with a man who has a bug like that?
at bug, n.4
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 67: Aw, chase yerself!
at go chase yourself! (excl.) under chase, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 107: The best stuffing for turkeys is chestnuts, which you can obtain from any author who writes musical comedy.
at chestnut, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 48: We were sentenced to live in one of those 8 x 9 Harlem people-coops.
at coop, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 98: In presenting these Cuckoo Recipes for the Chafing Dish to his friends [etc.].
at cuckoo, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 74: Then myself replied to myself with a sigh of exhaustion, ‘I don’t think!’.
at I don’t think, phr.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 14: Two busy gazabes were discussing politics.
at gazabo, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 49: We moved into the half-portion dwelling house last spring.
at half-portion, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 41: They would have waited for a snow storm on the 16th of January before signing their John Hancocks.
at John Hancock, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 13: Did you ever notice [...] that peculiar hog on the train who pays two dollars for a berth and always displaces eight dollars’ worth of space.
at hog, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 58: The mosquitos still look upon me as their meal ticket.
at meal ticket, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 73: [They] sat down to enjoy a smoke of domestic rope which fell across my nostrils and remained there in bitterness.
at rope, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 88: ‘What kind of diamonds are missing? [...] Are they sparklers or shines?’ ‘What is the difference,’ asked Mrs. Shinevonboodle haughtily. ‘The difference is about $95 a carat,’ whispered the policeman.
at shine, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 112: 23.
at twenty-three skidoo!, excl.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 10: Skiddoo for yours!
at skidoo, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 94: He thinks he has Shakespeare on a hot skiddoo for the sand dunes.
at skidoo, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 86: When the other young men began to smoke their cigarettes Claude grew uneasy. After they had consumed about seven sticks apiece Claude buried his face in a foaming stein of beer.
at stick, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 81: Bunch and Alice spent several weeks doing the society stunt at the fashionable seaside resorts.
at stunt, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ Skidoo! 68: Suffering crumpets, John!
at suffering —!, excl.
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