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The Other Side of the Circus choose

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[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 155: Against the law to pack a cookie-cutter without a license in a lot of states.
at cookie-cutter (n.) under cookie, n.1
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 272: A dime — demo.
at demo, n.2
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 77: We call him Joe Doaks – you know, a sort of rube.
at joe doakes, n.
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 754: ‘What did the man mean by a “dukie”?’John wanted to know. ‘That’s circus slang for a lunch’ [...] Ollie Webb puts up box lunches. We call them ‘dukies.’ Of course, ’most any elephant will grab a dukie of hay.
at dukie, n.1
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 197: Like as not, you’d overlook some gimix or other.
at gimix, n.
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 236: We call a clarinet a gob stick.
at gob-stick (n.) under gob, n.1
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 63: It’s the grinders that must be looked after most.
at grinder, n.1
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 236: The cymbals are the pot lids, and the tuba is the grunt horn.
at grunt horn (n.) under grunt, n.
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 50: Mister Willie Hollow-legs Carr [...] who can see the flag farther and eat more than any agent ahead of the show.
at hollow leg, n.
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 151: I run a geese college [...] I’ve been raising and training the old honkers there for going on twenty years.
at honker, n.1
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 65: We call the camels the ‘humps’ and the zebras the ‘convicts’.
at hump, n.1
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 155: Against the law to pack a cookie-cutter without a license in a lot of states.
at pack, v.1
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 58: Those who washed dishes were called ‘pearl divers’.
at pearl diver (n.) under pearl, n.1
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 236: Well, there’s the big drumstick. It’s a potato masher or walloper.
at potato masher (n.) under potato, n.
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 236: A French horn is a pretzel.
at pretzel, n.
[US] E.P. Norwood Other Side of the Circus 58: There was ‘Specs,’ who wore glasses.
at specs, n.
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