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The Hard Men choose

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[US] T.V. Olsen Hard Men (1974) 45: I found a bottle of whiskey [...] Maybe that would give you some belly.
at belly, n.
[US] T.V. Olsen Hard Men (1974) 242: Angus was cold turkey like the rest.
at cold turkey, n.
[US] T.V. Olsen Hard Men (1974) 121: He ate unhurriedly and fired up his pipe.
at fire up, v.
[US] T.V. Olsen The Hard Men (1974) 122: He decided that a heller of a storm would hit before long.
at heller (n.) under hell, n.
[US] T.V. Olsen Hard Men (1974) 143: Hannah brought the sluggish jughead to a halt.
at jughead, n.1
[US] T.V. Olsen Hard Men (1974) 23: You want me to hire this white-livered college boy?
at white-livered, adj.
[US] T.V. Olsen Hard Men (1974) 50: You pull your freight or out you go.
at pull one’s load (v.) under load, n.
[US] T.V. Olsen Hard Men (1974) 17: Tell us your name, pretty.
at pretty, n.
[US] T.V. Olsen Hard Men (1974) 147: You wasn’t fooling, was you snork?
at snork, n.
[US] T.V. Olsen Hard Men (1974) 11: Soderstrom eyed her darkly [...] ‘What you think, missus, is you talking to one big dumb squarehead, eh?’.
at squarehead, n.2
[US] T.V. Olsen Hard Men (1974) 111: We got ’em tighter than a flea’s ass [...] This time we can string up the lot.
at tight as a crab’s arse (at sixty fathoms) (adj.) under tight, adj.
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