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Stories of the Street and of the Town choose

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[US] Ade Stories of the Street and of the Town (1941) 24: S-s-t! Boy! Same as the last time.
at boy!, excl.
[US] Ade Stories of the Street and of the Town (1941) 94: No more drillin’ in the snow; no soup houses; never again in a bucket.
at bucket, n.
[US] Ade Stories of the Street and of the Town (1941) 33: Everybody that’s on to him says he’s a fink [...] a stiff, a skate.
at fink, n.
[US] Ade Stories of the Street and of the Town (1941) 100: Every policeman in uniform and every ‘fly’ man was on the lookout for a murderer.
at fly man (n.) under fly, adj.
[US] Ade Stories of the Street and of the Town (1941) 97: He was getting the ‘hotfoot.’ A heavy policeman was pounding the sole of his shoe.
at hot foot, n.
[US] Ade Stories of the Street and of the Town (1941) 249: The head was a lily.
at lily, n.
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