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Always the Young Strangers choose

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[US] C. Sandburg Always the Young Strangers 166: We heard him bark at the bonerack, ‘Get up there’.
at bag of bones, n.1
[US] (ref. to c.1890) C. Sandburg Always the Young Strangers 392: The goat in a town is the Catholic priest.
at goat, n.1
[US] C. Sandburg Always the Young Strangers 168: They told of a young fellow saying to his girl, ‘Let’s go to the picnic and after sundown we’ll have a grass sandwich’.
at grass sandwich (n.) under grass, n.1
[US] C. Sandburg Always the Young Strangers 259: We had a name for cigarettes—‘pimp sticks’.
at pimp stick (n.) under pimp, n.
[US] C. Sandburg Always the Young Strangers 283: I could see he would like to fight me if I was willing, a ‘snork’ and a ‘smoke’ bloodying each other’s noses.
at smoke, n.
[US] C. Sandburg Always the Young Strangers 281: A Swede was a ‘snorky.’ [...] One Swede boy to another, ‘Hello, snork’.
at snorky, n.
[US] (ref. to c.1890) C. Sandburg Always the Young Strangers 164: A newly married couple ‘got hitched’ and if they separated they ‘split the blanket’.
at split, v.
[US] (ref. to c.1890) C. Sandburg Always the Young Strangers 163: ‘Guff’ was chatter and you were ‘spreading it on too thick’.
at spread it thick (v.) under spread, v.
[US] C. Sandburg Always the Young Strangers 111: Then came a couple of stunners.
at stunner, n.
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