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Adventures of a Scholar Tramp choose

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[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 126: I got drunker than a fiddler’s bitch.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 293: I don’t give a tinker’s damn if she rambles off to Baffin Bay.
at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 79: The all-firedest biggest bulldog I ever clapped eyes on.
at all-fired, adj.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 218: Cut and run now! Make it fast!
at cut and run, v.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 103: I met an old lady and, feeling tired, gave her a song and dance about losing my car-fare. She gave me a nickel.
at give someone a song and dance (v.) under song and dance, n.1
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 290: I was invited to a long table crowded with jovial apple-knockers.
at apple-knocker, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 169: I [...] listened curiously to the speeches and ‘argufying’ going on.
at argufy, v.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 304: It is, in a pig’s ear!
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 131: What a great old train-barnacle he was, that Frisco!
at barnacle, n.1
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 139: The barrel-house stiff is frankly a booze parasite.
at barrelhouse, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 125: I’d [...] choke down rye bread greased with sow-belly. Sow-belly with buttons on too!
at sow-belly, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 85: Every time I shut my blinkers, I hear you yappin’.
at blinkers, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 82: His real name appeared to be Claphorne, ‘Cap’n Bohunkus’ being merely a jocular stroke of Frisco’s, which the old man accepted without a mite of resentment.
at bohunkus, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 130: We was goin’ to the booby-hatch together.
at booby-hatch, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 285: De dinge slowed ’im wid a pair o’ brass knucks, and den put de boots to ’im.
at put the boot in (v.) under boot, the, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 39: With the second scoop, I had gulped all the vile brew I could stomach.
at brew, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 46: The stew-bums or old dynos of the barrel-house saloons.
at stew bum, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 140: This function Louie referred to with great relish as ‘givin’ ’em the bum’s rush’.
at bum’s rush, n.
[US] (con. c.1912) G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 252: I’ll see that you get burnt good and plenty if I catch you loitering around the streets.
at burn, v.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 125: I’d [...] choke down rye bread greased with sow-belly. Sow-belly with buttons on too!
at button, n.1
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 293: These yeggs made fat hauls from unfortunate seasonal workers, such as [...] harvest-buzzards.
at harvest buzzard (n.) under buzzard, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 296: Well, if ol’ Red ain’t the candy-cock! Shavin’! Kin ye beat that?
at candy cock (n.) under candy, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 310: She was the Banner Limited, a cannon-ball making only a few stops.
at cannonball, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 305: Can you imagine? Me sashurated with smell-’em-good all the time like a damned chorus-man.
at chorus man, n.
[US] (ref. to 1912) G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 124: Ridin’ the cushions wid a ducat in yer coffee-bag; that is, riding inside a coach with a ticket in one’s coat pocket.
at coffee-bag (n.) under coffee, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 218: We knew he was a fly-cop [...] ‘Put up yer mitts!’ snapped the bull.
at fly cop, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 82: By cracky! I like somebody with good sense to talk to.
at cracky!, excl.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 126: He kick’d me one day, and I crawls ’im.
at crawl, v.2
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 80: Afore he [a dog] kin snap ’is crunchers on ye, ye kin kick ’is hull jawr off.
at crunchers, n.
[US] G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 8: Uneasy lies the head that wears a telescoped crown on the decks!
at deck, n.1
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