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[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 27: This yard dick sticks his beezer around trying to see where I went.
at beezer, n.1
[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 29: Heavy used to put the bug on me [...] The bug is what they call the blister beetle, a sort of a little bug. The juice of it blisters to beat hell. [...] The next day when I went into town to batter backdoors, why I could show the woman that opened the door the sores on my arms.
at put the bug on (v.) under bug, n.4
[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 302: That would give you a little time to cat around and enjoy your freedom some, huh-huh-huh.
at cat, v.1
[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 67: Dag gum bathroom smells just like a hen coop.
at dag, n.3
[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 89: If I flunk Ec I flunk out of school.
at eccy, n.
[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 33: I was high-tailing it down toward the engine acrost them box cars.
at hightail, v.
[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 28: Say, buddy, you ain’t got another hump there, have you?
at hump, n.1
[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 70: The Black Hoods, that bunch of amateur ku kluckers!
at klucker, n.
[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 75: Ah! What you students term a pipe course, eh, Wingate?
at pipe, n.1
[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 42: We had such a scrumptious time.
at scrumptious, adj.
[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 45: There’s not a knocker nor a sourbelly among them.
at sourball, n.
[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 265: Oh, it made a whizz of a feature!
at whiz, n.3
[US] G. Milburn No More Trumpets 45: A few of them might have some wild-haired ideas.
at wild hair (n.) under wild, adj.
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