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Sailor Beware! choose

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[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! I i: You know I’m busted. You cleaned me out yourself last night playin’ acey-deucey.
at ace-deuce, n.1
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! I i: Boy, I know her! She’s cold as a penguin’s behind.
at ...a polar bear’s behind under cold as..., adj.
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! I i: Wanta see my idea of a swell-built jane? [...] How’s that for a shape? Looka them avocados...!
at avocados, n.
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! I ii: That’s all right, honey, you got bokoo right to ’emou.
at beaucoup, n.
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! I i: wop: Too skinny. mattie: You polacks all go for them feather-bed mamas.
at feather-bed, n.
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! II ii: She’s got him buffaloed!
at buffaloed, adj.
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! II ii: You boys still bull-lobbin’?
at bull-lobb (v.) under bull, n.6
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! I i: [of a ship] Kee-rice, it’s great to be back on this tin can again.
at tin-can, n.2
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! II ii: A cave-man — not a sap that talks their leg off.
at cave-man, n.
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! I ii: I just wanta read the dirt about Frances Scully.
at dirt, n.
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! I i: Aw, go lay an egg!
at go lay an egg! (excl.) under egg, n.1
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! I ii: The boys want you to ditch gazoopus, here, and come on over.
at gazookus, n.1
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! II ii: Come back here, you lousy, button-polishin’ gyrene!
at gyrene, n.
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! II ii: He won’t try anything practical. No! He wants to go on lally-gaggin’.
at lallygag, v.
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! II iii: Say, don’t you look snozzy tonight?
at snazzy, adj.
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! I i: wop: Mean to say you didn’t do any steppin’? barney: Not much . . . Chet didn’t want to . . . he’s not always thinkin’ of dames.
at stepping, n.
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! II ii: A cave-man — not a sap that talks their leg off.
at talk one’s head off (v.) under talk, v.
[US] Nicholson & Robinson Sailor Beware! I iii: Gee, that’s a nice vic. Wish I had one.
at Vic, n.
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