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[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 38: It made an awful hit with Uncle Peter to see me cough up those two bones.
at awful, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 92: ‘I wish you could have seen our place in daytime,’ Peaches was saying to Skinski when I finished reading Bunch’s get-back.
at get-back, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 68: I’m only a silent partner in this concern, so you for the Bad Lands to do the barking for the show.
at bad land (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 68: I’m only a silent partner in this concern, so you for the Bad Lands to do the barking for the show.
at bark, v.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 20: Hereafter me for the beanery thing with the high stool and the low prices.
at beanery, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 62: ‘You betcha sweet!’ Dodo chimed in.
at (you) bet your life! (excl.) under bet, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 62: She wouldn’t be in the biz eight hours if that gold mine —.
at biz, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 116: What do I want to go hugging one-night stands for when I have a hundred thousand booboos in the kick.
at boo-boo, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 49: That’s where Charlie gave us the bum deal.
at bum deal (n.) under bum, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 54: Sixteen editors, fourteen reporters and twenty-three linotype men would take a running kick at old Buttinski.
at buttinski, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 18: I’m a few chips shy myself on account of a side play [...] I took a few slices of Amalgmated Copper and burned my thumb.
at chip, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 109: ‘Right!’ chirped Skinski.
at chirp, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 48: We can simply coin money with him.
at coin (it), v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 104: Why, I wouldn’t give you guys a cold deal not for Morgan’s bank roll.
at cold, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 96: ‘You are a commission merchant in Springfield, Ohio?’ [...] ‘I’ma used to was,’ Skinski corrected. ‘There was a time when I commished for fair.’.
at commish, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 16: I’ve got a scheme cooking that will put you and me all to the splendid.
at cook, v.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 38: It made an awful hit with Uncle Peter to see me cough up those two bones.
at cough up, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 26: He didn’t crack a smile.
at crack a smile (v.) under crack, v.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 27: ‘I’m dreadfully nervous about it.’ ‘I know, Bunch, I know just how you feel. I’m quite a bit to the St. Vitus myself.’.
at St Vitus’s dance, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 96: Put four of those dizzy-wizzys back in the box.
at dizzy-wizzy, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 91: But I’ll be dod bimmed if I’m going to sit around the parlor and play solos on my bronchial tubes for the edification of strangers – no sir!
at dod-bimmed (adj.) under dod, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 83: Well, if you feel tempted to give the old gentleman the double cross and tell me, why I’ll lock myself up in the doghouse till he gives you the starting pistol.
at doghouse, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 61: ‘Will you feed the face, Dodey?’ ‘You betcha sweet!’ Dodie replied.
at feed one’s face, v.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 68: Why didn’t you flash this stingy talk on me before we got started? [Ibid.] 114: He [a magician] flashed a line of hot illusions that had them groggy in short order.
at flash, v.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 51: ‘That duck isn’t a critic, he’s a only a Foofoo.’ ‘What the devil is a Foofoo?’ Bunch asked. ‘A Foofoo is something that tried to happen and then lost the address,’ I explained.
at foo-foo, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 72: I felt sure that Bunch was rid of his grouch [...] and that he wouldn’t have a rock in his hat for me for pulling that ‘Uncle Cornelius’ gag.
at pull a gag (v.) under gag, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 87: Deacon Spring decided that Uncle Peter had galloping asthma.
at galloping, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 115: Is it a go?
at go, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 14: Didn’t I go up against that horse game so hard that I shook the whole community [...] ?
at go up, v.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Can Search Me 115: No, by Hick! I’ll make it seven thousand each.
at heck!, excl.
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