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Boys’ Life July 40/3: It’s this way— ah — er— I mean — Aw, shucks, I can’t express it the way I want to.at aw shucks! (excl.) under shucks!, excl.
Boys’ Life July 40/3: It’s this way— ah — er— I mean — Aw, shucks, I can’t express it the way I want to. Boys’ Life Nov. 30: You rusty, iron-headed boob!at ironheaded, adj.
Boys’ Life Oct. 21/1: ‘Aw shucks!’ says Grunter. ’If I wasn't tied up I'd bat you in the eye for that’.at aw shucks! (excl.) under shucks!, excl.
Boys’ Life Feb. 23/2: I wisht a can o’ that salmon you was talkin’ about would jist drop into my grub-hooks.at grub hooks (n.) under grub, n.2
Boy’s Life Sept. 48: [advt.] And when you sling lead at him [i.e. a fox] with your old slow-as-molasses 30-30, he knows you're guessing.at sling lead (v.) under lead, n.
Boys’ Life Oct. 9/1: ‘This is a big deal, Langdon, big deal.’ ‘Yeah?’ Langdon looked up intently. ‘Biggest cargo of the year, Langdon’.at big deal, n.
Boys’ Life Dec. 40/3: The Boonville fans were yelling like crazy.at like crazy, adv.
Boy’s Life Mar. 10/1: He could stand up to anything that came along, take punishment like a man, and come up smiling for more.at come up smiling (v.) under come up, v.1
Boy’s Life Apr. 14/4: ‘Throw them overboard!’ roared Mr. Perkins. So, sadly, Muggy gave them the deep six .at deep six, v.
Boy’s Life Feb. 3: Lieutenant Strong has done a walloper: ‘Neptune Meets the Whale.’ A story of water polo that’ll make you want to get the old swimming suit to work again.at walloper, n.1
Boy’s Life Mar. 6/3: Jo slacks off his jaw tackle and calls ’em all the dirty names he ever learnt.at jaw-tackle (n.) under jaw, v.1
Boys’ Life Oct. 44/4: ‘Some what?’ demanded Hoptoad, about to blow a gasket.at blow a gasket (v.) under gasket, n.
Boy’s Life Jan. 3: Contemptuously dismissed by the more knowing spectators as a junk-heap, not only the boys themselves but those against whom the car was to run knew that it had possibilities.at junkheap (n.) under junk, n.1
Boy’s Life Oct. 47/3: A new type of chemical fire-extinguisher has come in, and Captain Yates holds a ‘skull session’ to explain how it operates.at skull session (n.) under skull, n.1
Boys’ Life Aug. 15/3: If you kick over the traces, I’ll skin your hide off and nail it on the barn.at nail someone’s hide to the (barn) door (v.) under nail, v.
Boys’ Life Aug. 29: ‘If I can’t put all four arrows in the center, I’m a sad apple.’ Zing went the shaft, and the sad apple watched it hit five feet beyond the target.at sad apple (n.) under apple, n.1
Boys’ Life Oct. 12: They had a roll big enough to choke a cow.at roll that would choke a mule (n.) under roll, n.
Boys’ Life Aug. 39/1: ‘Cookie [...] we was only jokin’,’ moaned one saddle bum. ‘I’m jokin’ too,’ snapped the irate grub-spoiler.at grub-spoiler (n.) under grub, n.2
Boy’s Life Mar. 16: What matters most is that everybody must get his proper amount of sack-time. What happens to a person who fails to get enough rest? [etc.].at sack time (n.) under sack, n.
Boys’ Life May 13: And what about the hassle of wearing a ‘brain bucket’?at brain bucket (n.) under brain, n.1
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