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[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ From First To Last (1954) 14: He suddenly gets all-fired peremptory.
at all-fired, adv.
[US] D. Runyon ‘Fat Fallon’ in From First to Last (1954) 28: He’s down in Arizona now, commanding a penny-ante post on the desert.
at penny ante, adj.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 20: It was colder’n blazes.
at blazes, n.
[US] D. Runyon ‘Fat Fallon’ in From First to Last (1954) 29: He was in barracks in Manila, before the gugu blow-off.
at blow off, n.1
[US] D. Runyon ‘Fat Fallon’ in From First to Last (1954) 30: He’d been posing as a fighter [...] and he had most of us buffaloed.
at buffaloed, adj.
[US] D. Runyon ‘Fat Fallon’ From First to Last (1954) 35: I christen thee the Bum Steer.
at bum steer (n.) under bum, adj.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 13: Two cases a shift for snoljering.
at case, n.4
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 12: There’s a plug sitting behind the desk, looking as chest as a travelling man.
at chest, adj.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 18: They cut up rough with the strikers whenever they got a chanst.
at cut up rough, v.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 23: My scouts [...] comes in, their horses dead beat.
at deadbeat, adj.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 13: This is duck soup for us all.
at duck soup, n.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 17: There was a whole battalion of foot-shakers in camp.
at foot-shaker (n.) under foot, n.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 26: They knew something about this frame-up to attack the miners’ camp.
at frame-up, n.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 12: The rest of the gang was no better off.
at gang, n.1
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 13: Here’s a gee hungerin’ to slip us two bucks a day.
at gee, n.3
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 11: I had an idea then that you came from the state gravel wallopers.
at gravel-walloper (n.) under gravel, n.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 13: You hams standing around with wrinkles in your bellies.
at ham, n.2
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 12: We didn’t want the gang [...] to give us the big tee-hee.
at give someone the big tee-hee (v.) under tee-hee, n.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 23: They won’t start until about midnight, and then they’re coming a-hellin’.
at hell, v.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 13: Come along [...] before the boogie man sloughs you in the skookum for mopery.
at skookum house, n.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 15: I failed to hear anyone kick in with their right name.
at kick in, v.5
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 21: They thought the top was throwing it into our gang for double duty.
at throw (it) into, v.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 17: They might be calico rippers in real life, but they sure laid it on there.
at lay it on, v.
[US] D. Runyon ‘Fat Fallon’ in From First to Last (1954) 31: They were a bunch of jackies from the Olympia under a lieutenant.
at jack, n.5
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 24: I’ve seen crowds suddenly jimmied up in my time.
at jimmied up, adj.
[US] D. Runyon ‘Fat Fallon’ in From First to Last (1954) 29: He ate with us and slept with us and joshed with us.
at josh, v.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 12: We’re about twenty-five strong [...] and there wasn’t forty cents Mex in the layout.
at layout, n.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 13: ‘Strike-soldiers wanted — two dollars a day and found.’ [...] ‘Well, that’s where I live [...] I’m the original soldier.’.
at where one lives under live, v.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 12: We’d maced about everyone we could think of.
at mace, v.
[US] D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 11: The sad circumstances of J. Wallace Hanks’ enlistment in the Colorado State milish.
at milish, n.
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