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[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Boss Book 142: Boys, you are rapidly becoming ‘old back numbers’.
at back number (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Boss Book 34: During the talk of the blue-nosed man the President swallowed a bit of tobacco.
at blue-nosed, adj.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Boss Book 159: Come, bub, we will go down to the candy store.
at bub, n.3
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Boss Book 237: You are a daisy, and no Canuck wants to forget it.
at Canuck, n.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Boss Book 111: After a few moons the plaster [...] got in its work.
at moon, n.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Boss Book 72: I am no Pinkerton.
at Pink, n.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Boss Book 229: Pop is the most useless of all beverages.
at pop, n.1
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Boss Book 73: I didn’t have any sand.
at sand, n.1
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Boss Book 72: I am going to pull sand-baggers and horse-thieves for eighty dollars a month.
at sandbagger, n.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Boss Book 239: Sis, you sit right down there.
at sis, n.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Boss Book 9: Madame Modjeska, who is no slouch of an actress.
at slouch, n.
[US] G.W. Peck Peck’s Boss Book 143: There was one crowd of old vets from Chicago.
at vet, n.1
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