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[US] Fort Wayne Sentinel 4 June 8/5: ‘Didn’t you hear me say ‘hod dickety dog?’ asked the traveler. ‘What’s the matter with you rubes, anyway. Everybody who is anybody knows that that means I’m jerry; I’m hep; I connect.’.
at hot diggety (dog)!, excl.
[US] Fort Wayne Sentinel 4 June 8/6: Down in New Orleans they say ‘I think I’ll take a little dodo,’ meaning they’re going to hunt the hay or go to sleep.
at hit the hay (v.) under hay, n.
[US] Fort Wayne Sentinel 4 June 8/6: Now, out in San Francisco the most popular word is ‘the old jazz.’ It means anything you may happen to want it to.
at jazz, n.
[US] Fort Wayne Sentinel 4 June 8/5: ‘Didn’t you hear me say “hod dickety dog?”’ asked the traveler. ‘What’s the matter with you rubes, anyway. Everybody who is anybody knows that that means I’m jerry; I’m hep; I connect.’.
at jerry, adj.2
[US] Fort Wayne Sentinel 4 June 8/6: Round the Stanton House there in Indianapolis there was a bunch of traveling men and they gave me a line on the correct slang in various parts of the country.
at get a line on (v.) under line , n.1
[US] Fort Wayne Sentinel 4 June 8/6: If a person doesn’t care about the subject under discussion he says, ‘It’s mush to me.’.
at mush, n.1
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