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[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 276: You were a great deal better fellow when you were Lazy Jack and did n’t amount to a row of pins.
at hill of beans, a, phr.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 127: Just think of coming back in a pine-box.
at box, n.1
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 210: Don’t make any breaks down there about queer pins.
at break, n.1
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 102: ‘Aha,’ cried Stoughton, who was stirring the ‘bunny’ with a master hand. [...] While they were eating the rarebit, a step was heard in the entry.
at bunny, n.1
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 220: Dago Mac’ came up to his form.
at dago, adj.1
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 108: That is where we unknown woolly Westerners get the drop on the Boston men.
at get the drop(s) (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 129: An old grad. attains his title as soon as he ceases to be a very young grad.
at grad, n.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 269: He had been found in his room ‘grinding’ for that degree.
at grind, v.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 11: Come now, old grind, do take a day off.
at grind, n.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 146: When you are doing better than three and a half, you are hitting it up pretty well.
at hit it up (v.) under hit it, v.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 118: The manager was crazy, and told him to send for a hurry-up wagon, and run us all in.
at hurry-up wagon (n.) under hurry-up, n.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 246: The first rule was to assist each other in obtaining nourishment and irrigation at the crowded ‘spreads’.
at irrigate, v.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 246: The first rule was to assist each other in obtaining nourishment and irrigation at the crowded ‘spreads’.
at irrigation, n.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 140: Then he begged worse kind just to let him look out of a window where he could see you.
at worst kind, the, phr.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 290: Let’s go lush up with the rest of the crowd.
at lush (it) up (v.) under lush, v.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 10: You need n’t grin at this nag either, you old monk.
at monk, n.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 201: Just watch me do the nobby. (Smirks and waves his hat at ladies).
at nobby, adj.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 108: I believe on the strength of my promise he bought a seat in the peanut gallery.
at peanut gallery (n.) under peanut, n.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 284: And is his ‘sand,’ as you call it, restricted to rowing a boat-race?
at sand, n.1
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 216: It was the symbol of some particularly ‘smooth’ and secret band of brothers.
at smooth, adj.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 210: ‘Well, you ’ll have a rattling good time down there.’ ‘A “smooth” time, you mean,’ corrected Rattleton. ‘Don’t you know how to talk Elic yet?’.
at smooth, adj.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 210: What Senior ever cares two snaps about it one way or the other?
at not care a snap (v.) under snap, n.2
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 107: I was once a god-less Sophomore even as other Sophs.
at soph, n.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 108: You did look stunning in those red tights, even more fetching than you are now in those pajamas.
at stunning, adj.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 106: With ‘tod and tobac.’ the party disposed itself about the room.
at tod, n.
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 235: The mucker was put in the middle of the room with the ‘trot’; the students sat around him.
at trot, n.3
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 198: Jack Randolph just made the horrid smell with one of Steve’s weeds.
at weed, n.1
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 108: That is where we unknown woolly Westerners get the drop on the Boston men.
at woolly, adj.2
[US] W.K. Post Harvard Stories 295: Perhaps you had better lend me an X now.
at X, n.2
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