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A Sketch of Sam Bass choose

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[US] C.L. Martin A Sketch of Sam Bass (1956) 135: He will give us h-ll, for they are mad as h-ll.
at mad as..., adj.
[US] C.L. Martin A Sketch of Sam Bass (1956) 58: The ‘butcher boy’ on the train also participated in the fight. [...] It is believed that the ‘butcher’ shot both Frank Jackson and Sam Pipes.
at butcher, n.2
[US] C.L. Martin A Sketch of Sam Bass (1956) 146: We didn’t want any racket until we could make a draw and cash our old white pistols.
at cash one’s pistol (v.) under cash, v.1
[US] C.L. Martin A Sketch of Sam Bass (1956) 149: I don’t give a cuss for that.
at cuss, n.2
[US] C.L. Martin Sketch of Sam Bass (1956) 57: You are a brave little cuss, but you are my meat.
at meat, n.
[US] C.L. Martin A Sketch of Sam Bass (1956) 119: But for the fact that the robbers had [...] provided themselves with fresh horses, they would inevitably have been captured or ‘wiped out.’.
at wipe out, v.
[US] C.L. Martin A Sketch of Sam Bass (1956) 145: I’d jerk out my pistol and slip up to him [...] Throw up your props, Cap!
at prop, n.2
[US] C.L. Martin A Sketch of Sam Bass (1956) 141: Well, boys, if you scrubs can get that much, I think Jim and I can draw at least fifty thousand.
at scrub, n.1
[US] C.L. Martin A Sketch of Sam Bass (1956) 150: If a man could take me alive, he would make a thunder-mug full of money.
at thundermug (n.) under thunder, n.
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