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Tip on a Dead Crab choose

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[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 162: [to a horse] Hey, big boy.
at big boy, n.
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 211: Charlie’s gonna blow him down in the stretch.
at blow down, v.
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 41: Get him cooled out now and we’ll call it a day.
at call it a day (v.) under call, v.
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 208: He must have been easy pickings for a toothsome chippy like Gloria, who’s got an ass [...] and knows how to peddle it to her advantage.
at chippie, n.1
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 208: I swear to Christ I’ll go straight from here to the stewards and the police.
at to Christ under Christ, n.
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 92: We had what you call a dead crab.
at crab, n.3
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 208: I’ll do my damnedest to get that horse scratched.
at damnedest (adj.) under damned, adj.
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 174: [of a horse] That fucker’s going to win the race.
at fucker, n.
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 159: ‘Did Gloria gamble a lot?’ [...] ‘I heard she was at the heavy tables, too. Baccarat, mostly.’.
at heavy, adj.
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 217: Watch this dumb move the jock makes on Machismo [...] Look at that! You ever seen a dumber rider.
at jock, n.2
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 79: ‘It’s what we used to call a mortal lock.’ [...] ‘An animal that cannot lose the race,’ Sam said. ‘Of which there ain’t any such animals.’.
at mortal lock (n.) under mortal, adj.1
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 123: He’s got his nose up your ass if you’re a winner.
at have one’s nose up someone’s ass/arse (v.) under nose, n.
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 123: That jerk thinks betting horses is like putting your money in the bank. If horses was boats, he’d have tapped out on the Titanic.
at tap out, v.
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 135: I’m standing there with two bills on his pig, a sure winner, if he don’t piss in his silks at the idea he might win.
at pig, n.
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 229: His stud fee was put at only a thousand dollars a pop.
at pop, n.1
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 105: Only Harrison stood pat.
at stand pat (v.) under stand, v.2
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 87: You’re not going to bet real money on that stiff, are you?
at stiff, n.1
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 182: For reasons of his own, Buckingham is pulling a switch here. [...] We can wonder about whether your trainer’s pulling a switch or not later [...] I cannot accept that he is cheating me or hope that the horse will pay a large price.
at pull a switch (v.) under switch, n.1
[US] W. Murray Tip on a Dead Crab 227: Egbert [...] declared that since he had stopped gambling, he could now invest in wildcat oil wells and penny mining stocks.
at wildcat, adj.
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