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[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 Here’s your chance to get hunk with that beezark!
at bezark, n.
[US] R.L Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June n.p.: I’ll blast hell out of you. Not only for graft—but for murder.
at blast, v.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 You get slammed for a touchdown [...] And blooie goes our hard-earned rep!
at go blooey (v.) under blooey!, excl.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 Reilly [...] smites him an elbow-smash upon the cafeteria.
at cafeteria, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 Reilly [...] smites him an elbow-smash upon the cafeteria, thereby dislodging several sections of Dode’s chinaware.
at china, n.1
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 Reilly flips him end over appetite.
at end over appetite (adj.) under end, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 You have got to take this tramp [...] Remember, this is our last chance here at the Garden.
at Garden, the, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 ‘Svengali is the central character in the play “Trilby”,’ the tall gazooka elucidates.
at gazook, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 ‘Who’s wrestling us?’ I ask. ‘Oh, some New York loogan. He’s not too good.’.
at loogan, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 We collect our forty marbles.
at marbles, n.4
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 He wears a stovepipe hat which has seen better days.
at stove-pipe, n.
[US] R.L. Bellem ‘Grappling Trilby’ in Popular Sports June 🌐 So I’m to stiffen your tramp again, am I?
at stiffen, v.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 We got the big end of the purse.
at big end (of) (n.) under big, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 ‘Thanks, kid,’ I said, somewhat choked.
at choked, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 The bartender gave him gin via mistake. That made Sooper a wee bit dizzy.
at dizzy, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 I never seen him in a barroom or even chasing the femmes.
at femme, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 He was known as a club fighter, i.e., a sucker sappo—crowd-pleaser.
at -o, sfx
[US] T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 Then we got a shot at Roscoe Druke.
at shot, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 I want to thank you, Mr. Delaney, for your squareness [...] you have been darn white to me.
at squareness (n.) under square, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 Instead of grabbing my usual seventy-five per cent, plus all expenses, which are always tasty, I merely took fifty per cent.
at tasty, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 I want to thank you, Mr. Delaney, for your squareness [...] you have been darn white to me.
at white, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 Me, I was rooting for him, but the way he did it — woof!
at woof!, excl.
[US] T. Thursday ‘You Gotta Have Luck’ in Popular Sports Jan. 🌐 On the morrow he would go to Hialeah, win some dough on the bangtails, and have one ritzy time.
at bangtail, n.2
[US] T. Thursday ‘You Gotta Have Luck’ in Popular Sports Jan. 🌐 A guy gets in a tight spot, blows his top, and shoots. Next stop, the hot settee.
at hot seat, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘You Gotta Have Luck’ Popular Sports Jan. n.p.: ‘Okay, okay!’ snapped Gypsy. ‘What’s the lay?’.
at lay, n.3
[US] T. Thursday ‘You Gotta Have Luck’ in Popular Sports Jan. 🌐 The clerk examines the tenner and finds it is a counterfeit. As you know, we’ve had quite a bit of queer shoving in town lately.
at shove the queer (v.) under queer, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘You Gotta Have Luck’ in Popular Sports Jan. 🌐 The Nitro Kid had warned him against shacking up in cheap flop houses.
at shack up (with), v.
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