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[US] (con. 1940s) O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 94: I’d played to crowds before, but this was the biggest bunch of healthy, happy-looking alligators I’d ever encountered.
at alligator, n.
[US] (con. 1930s) O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 46: I told Blondie I wasn’t born to be a B-drinker. The customers aside, I might have reacted better if the drinks had been real champagne and whiskey instead of ginger ale and tea.
at B-girl, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 114: All the fast-buck artists had opened up, giving the place the worst characteristics of a boomtown.
at fast-buck artist (n.) under fast-buck, adj.
[US] O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 21: I was so proud I almost popped my buttons.
at bust one’s buttons (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times (1983) 38: He’d been chippying around and had caught a venereal disease, so I gave him the gate.
at chippie, v.2
[US] (con. 1930s) O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 38: The Nations Walkathon [...] was a flop and I was a little el dingo.
at el dingo, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 119: ‘One hundred and twenty-five dollars a week.’ ‘Fan-TAB-ulous!’.
at fantabulous, adj.
[US] O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 38: He’d been chippying aroud and had caught a venereal disease, so I gave him the gate.
at give someone the gate (v.) under gate, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 123: A bunch of jivesters had crowded in [...] determined to get their money’s worth.
at jiver, n.
[US] (con. 1930s) O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 52: Trilby was a lovebug, in and out of love every week.
at love bug (n.) under love, n.
[US] O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 36: I was only fifteen and acted like Miss Priss.
at Miss, n.
[US] (con. 1940s) O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times (1983) 119: It was a class-A outfit, but I’d had it with big-band work.
at outfit, n.1
[US] (con. 1940s) O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 96: I’m not your ordinary peaches-and-cream band chick [...] I don’t come on as a pretty girl in ruffles who flirts.
at peaches, adj.
[US] O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 38: Mom stormed around [...] threatening to have everyone hauled off to the pokey.
at pokey, n.2
[US] O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 36: I was only fifteen and acted like Miss Priss.
at priss, n.
[US] (con. 1930s) O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 36: LeNac cut out with this red-headed railbird he’d been romancing.
at railbird, n.
[US] (con. 1930s) O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 37: Kids often got squirrelly during those quiet moments.
at squirrely, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s) O’Day & Eells High Times Hard Times 107: Tell the kid to quit upstaging me.
at upstage, v.
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