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The Iceman Cometh choose

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[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: You dumb baby dolls gimme a pain.
at baby-doll (n.) under baby, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: Harry Hope is sixty, white-haired, so thin the description bag of bones was made for him.
at bag of bones, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act III: Yuh look sick, Willie. Take a ball to pick yuh up.
at ball, n.2
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: Look at de Big Chief in dem days [...] Folks in de know tells me, see de man at de top, den you never has trouble.
at big chief (n.) under big, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: Be God, this bughouse will drive me stark, raving loony yet!
at stark staring bonkers, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: pearl: We nailed a coupla all-night guys. margie: On Sixth Avenoo. Boobs from de sticks.
at boob, n.2
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: We ought to phone de boobyhatch to send round de wagon for ’em.
at booby-hatch, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act II: Hey, you dumb tart, quit banging the box!
at box, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act II: I drinks dat old bubbly water in steins!
at bubbly, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: Be God, this bughouse will drive me stark, raving loony yet!
at bughouse, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act II: Aw, forget dat bughouse line of bull.
at line of bull (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: De Bull Moosers is de on’y reg’lar guys.
at bull moose, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act II: Who de hell yuh laughin’ at yuh half-dead old stew bum?
at stew bum, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act III: Aw, yuh got a fine bun on now!
at bun, n.2
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: An old grafting flatfoot and a circus bunco steerer! [...] Couple of con men living in my flat since Christ knows when!
at bunco steerer (n.) under bunco, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: (Rocky watches this move carefully.) Pipe him keepin’ cases, Margie.
at keep cases (on) (v.) under case, v.1
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act II: I’ll go and have a private chin with the Commissioner.
at chin, n.2
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: She woke up Chuck [...] to go to a chop suey joint.
at chop suey joint (n.) under chop suey, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act III: And every time dey’d crawl my frame wid de same old argument.
at crawl someone’s frame (v.) under crawl, v.2
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: What a bunch of cuckoos!
at cuckoo, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act III: Can yuh beat de noive of dat dinge!
at dinge, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act III: Stay passed out, that’s the right dope.
at dope, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act III: Stay passed out, that’s the right dope.
at dope, n.3
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act III: Cheap skate! I know what’s eatin’ you, Tightwad!
at eat, v.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: Jees, dey’d tink dey’d gone deef if dey didn’t hear de El rattle.
at el, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act IV: It’s my birthday! Bejees, I’m orey-eyed! I want to sing!
at ory-eyed, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: You and the other bums have begun to give me the graveyard fantods.
at fantod, n.
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: I was friskin’ him for his roll.
at frisk, v.2
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act I: I steered him into a side street where it was dark and propped him against a wall and gave him a frisk. [...] I picked twelve bucks offa him.
at frisk, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act II: I lost my temper! [...] I’ve a hell of a grouch on.
at grouch, n.
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