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[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 9/2: Imitate a tree – Leave.
at make like (a)..., v.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 6/1: Carbolic acid – Goodbye in any language.
at acid, n.2
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/1: African golf – Seven come ’leven.
at African golf (n.) under African, adj.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 7/2: Don’t be an airdale – Rebuke for fickleness.
at airedale, n.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/1: Ankled by – Went by and not riding.
at ankle, v.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 14/2: Space to let – A vacant stare.
at apartment(s) to let, phr.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/1: Asphalt Arab – Man whose idea of a good time is to take his girl window shopping.
at asphalt arab, n.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 12/1: On the arm – Something for nothing in the entertainment industry.
at on the arm (adv.) under arm, n.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/1: Armstrong Wheeler — Wheelbarrow when a hobo has to use it.
at armstrong, adj.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 6/2: Cold as grandmother’s kiss – Lacking in enthusiasm and ardor.
at ...a step-mother’s breath under cold as..., adj.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 12/1: Putting away his ice, pawning his diamond.
at put away, v.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 10/2: Kick-back – have to return a sucker’s money.
at kick back, v.1
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/2: Bad news – piece of pasteboard handed by the waiter after a meal.
at bad news, n.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 6/1: Badge man – Detective.
at badge-man (n.) under badge, n.1
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/2: Bag of wind – Hefty talker who says nothing.
at bag of wind (n.) under bag, n.1
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 12/2: Punching the bag – Incessant talking.
at punch the bag (v.) under bag, n.1
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/2: Balloon juice – Hot air.
at balloon juice (n.) under balloon, n.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/2: Bologna bender – Thrower of so-called bull.
at baloney bender, n.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 10/2: Lot of bologna – Gross exaggeration.
at baloney, n.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 9/1: Gin-blossom – Flapper who likes to bloom now and then.
at gin blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 6/1: Blow! – The skin game man’s signal to his confederates to lose at the game.
at blow!, excl.2
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 6/1: Blue envelope – Cancelling a vaudeville act in America.
at blue envelope (v.) under blue, adj.1
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 6/2: Canalboats – large sized shoes.
at canal boat, n.1
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict.
at yowl-box, n.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict.
at box one’s/the compass (v.) under box, v.2
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/2: Brick roof – Red headed.
at bricktop (n.) under brick, n.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 6/1: Broad – [...] queen in a card skin game.
at broad, n.2
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/1: Broadcaster – Repeater of everything he hears.
at broadcast, v.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict. 6/1: Broad-tosser — Three-card skin game artist.
at broad tosser (n.) under broads, n.
[US] Maines & Grant Wise-crack Dict.
at brodie, n.1
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