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[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 83: Betcha five bucks against a ’dobe dollar the shyster has them out of stir before night.
at adobe dollar (n.) under adobe, adj.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 135: I understand it’s rich as all get-out.
at all get out, phr.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 266: You and he are thick as thieves.
at ...thieves under thick as..., adj.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 263: Look here, young fellow. Ferrill is my baby. I know you are going to check up on him. That’s all right, but you are to come to me with anything you find out.
at baby, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 137: The eyes of the man were alert and restless in the gross beefy face.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 200: How did you get these gallows birds, Bucky?
at gallows-bird, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 59: He didn’t want to be blasted down when they poured a volley into us.
at blast, v.1
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 92: They would not put the blast on a man in a hospital.
at put the blast on (v.) under blast, n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 19: Garside was a booster for his city. He began to promote the town at once.
at boost, v.1
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 309: Another of your brain storms.
at brainstorm (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 22: You Camerons are through in this country – bucked out.
at buck out (v.) under buck, v.4
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 214: If they are in El Paso they will get together soon. We want to bag the whole caboodle.
at whole caboodle (n.) under caboodle, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 11: Yeah, you want it clear as mud, don’t you?
at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 16: Let the folks he has ruined cook his goose for him, I say.
at cook someone’s goose, v.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 125: Meaning he was the same man took a crack at you?
at take a crack at (v.) under crack, n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 143: Be cautious, boys. Don’t get gun-crazy.
at -crazy, sfx
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 126: The public expects you to get results or be fired, but if you put pressure on suspects the dear people are horrified at third degree methods.
at third degree, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 184: You’re the doggondest idiot I ever did meet.
at doggone, adj.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 317: Friend West and his gang are done. Either they leave the country or go to the penitentiary.
at done, adj.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 46: They would have dry-gulched my uncle.
at dry gulch (v.) under dry, adj.1
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 11: We’re not complete idjits, fellow.
at eejit, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 115: I got in at the fag end, just in time to hear the other man say that they had waited long enough for Haskell to act.
at fag end, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 158: Well, I’m not really expecting any fireworks tonight.
at fireworks, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 53: Bucky broke a .45 and examined it.
at forty-five, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 8: Don’t get funny, Cameron. I’m telling you that this town is fed up with your gang. [Ibid.] 25: Don’t get funny with me.
at get funny with (v.) under funny, adj.2
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 243: ‘Don’t get gay with me, young woman,’ O’Sullivan advised, his face red.
at get gay (with) (v.) under gay, adj.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 280: If I take your money, I’ll deliver the goods.
at deliver the goods (v.) under goods, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 6: Struts like a goshdinged li’l bantam.
at gosh-damned (adj.) under gosh, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 135: They claim he’s spread out darned thin and if anything cracked he would have to scratch gravel considerable.
at scratch (the) gravel (v.) under gravel, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Cool Customer 258: But, great guns, man! Suppose something happened to you.
at great guns! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
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