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The Whip and Satirist of N.Y. & Brooklyn choose

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[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 25 Dec. n.p.: [of a broken-down horse] Six and three quarters is all I’m bid for this fine specimen of—’ ‘Anatomy’.
at anatomy, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 25 Dec. n.p.: Wap! he received a flush left-hander over the blinker.
at blinker, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 25 Dec. n.p.: Wap! he received a flush left-hander over the blinker.
at whop!, excl.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 16 July n.p.: There was the ‘thimble rigger’ in all his glory [...] the brother of an ex-justice was there and one of the ‘acorn boys’ cocked his leg for him.
at acorn boy (n.) under acorn, n.2
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 26 Feb. n.p.: Drink less rum and mind your own business, and don’t let us call you an a-s-s.
at ass, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 21 May n.p.: [of a brothel] Why ain’t that ‘all fours’ concern turned out? It’s shocking.
at play at all fours (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 22 Jan. n.p.: A straight flush right-handed hit [...] which bothered his attic story.
at attic, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 5 Mar. n.p.: ‘Mother’ or ‘aunt’ [...] is always at hand to silence trouble [i.e. in a brothel].
at aunt, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 3 Sept. n.p.: [T]o enlighten the ideas of the ‘wide awakes’ of that city .
at wide-awake, adj.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 17 Dec. n.p.: Some very excellent toasts were given, among which [...] ‘May his awl never want waxing’.
at awl, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 24 Sept. n.p.: the whip wants to know What became of all of the old baches steamboats .
at bach, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 3 Sept. n.p.: Sullivan [...] seemed rather inclined to give thirteen to the dozen than to take back one .
at give (someone) a baker’s dozen (v.) under baker’s dozen, n.1
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 1 Jan. n.p.: Sam Smith is a capital hand at a stroke with the balls, and, we take it, he always plays for the pocket with the Widow Thwaites.
at balls, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 22 Oct. n.p.: My man [...] wants all the money I can raise, and if he don’t get it he will bang me.
at bang, v.1
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 23 Apr. n.p.: The lives of the [...] suckers, pimps, thieves, pickpockets, bullies, skivers and bangers.
at banger, n.5
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 1 Jan. n.p.: The aristocratic bantlings of whom we have been speaking.
at bantling, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 16 July n.p.: That bean-belly gent.
at beanbelly, n.2
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 12 Feb. n.p.: The beasts who follow that unhallowed practice of Sodomy.
at beast, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 9 Apr. n.p.: There are so many bed-houses and places of assignation, where bawds pleasure crowns the labors of the day.
at bed-house (n.) under bed, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 7 May n.p.: She [...] sent a sockdoliger into her bellows mover.
at bellows mover (n.) under bellows, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 8 Jan. n.p.: Arthur [...] put in such a belly-go-firster that Barnes went down like a log of wood.
at belly-go-firster (n.) under belly, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 17 Sept. n.p.: He will be apt to take his ‘better half’ from some of the many young ladies of that place .
at better half, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 28 May n.p.: The biddies and slewers assemble [...] in anxious expectation.
at biddy, n.2
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 2 Apr. n.p.: Gob told [her] that Swab was a regular bilk.
at bilk, n.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 18 June n.p.: Two Fowlers shooting at the same bird, and that a bird of passage.
at bird of passage (n.) under bird, n.1
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 5 Mar. n.p.: A Flock of Scared Birds [...] a dozen of Miller’s harlots running as if the d—l was after them.
at bird, n.1
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 3 Sept. n.p.: Those bits of blood and fashion.
at bit of blood (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 29 Jan. n.p.: the whip wants to know If the gentleman landlord [...] cannot discontinue the practice of taking out his rent in muslin.
at bit of muslin (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 14 May n.p.: Is she aware that some of her scandal confidents have blabbed to some of those she is the habit of abusing.
at blab, v.
[US] Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 12 Mar. n.p.: She was conveyed to ‘the Island’ in ‘the Black Maria’ with oaths and curses.
at Black Maria, n.
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