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[US] K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 127: Do we hold over Bowers? You may just bet your sweet life we do! Have we got him where the wool’s all wore off the top of his head?
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[US] K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 26: Are you willing to work in cahoots with yours truly?
at in cahoots (with) under cahoots, n.
[US] K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 272: That’s him! Thats Jedge Fisher. Ain’t he just a chick-a-dee-dee with the cheek of a government mule!
at chickadee, n.
[US] K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 254: I bought the hoss, ’cause I wanted one [...] but he’s such an ugly cuss.
at cuss, n.1
[US] K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 262: Me and my pard was scooping in a pile when three galoots [...] played it low down on us and vamosed with the dinero.
at dinero, n.
[US] K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 135: [heading] The Conspirators are Euchred.
at euchred, adj.
[US] K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 127: Do we hold over Bowers?
at hold over someone (v.) under hold, v.1
[US] K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 26: A white man who doesn’t know a monte lay-out from a checker-board.
at layout, n.
[US] K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 188: If you notice me anyways snifty or piling on any lugs in this here camp, you just bump me down hard.
at put on lugs (v.) under lugs, n.
[US] K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 181: Nifty! Pard, just chalk it on your slate that it’s going to be nifty, and high-toned, and run in a bang-up hotel style.
at nifty, adj.
[US] K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 188: If you notice me getting anyways snifty [...] you just bump me down hard once or twice.
at snifty, adj.
[US] K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 272: Ain’t he a healthy specimen though?
at specimen, n.
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