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[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 93: Mike Fink [...] half wild horse and half cock-eyed alligator.
at half-horse, half-alligator, adj.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 131: Yuh come to me wid a lot uh arkymalarky.
at arkymalarky, n.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 31: The bargains brandished with slambang hoots and yells.
at slam-bang, adj.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 80: They enjoy the oily slant-eyed spieler with his slick bazoo selling tickets and gabbing.
at bazoo, n.1
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 176: ‘Next,’ burbled a city editor.
at burble, v.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 90: I don’t believe a word you say but I love to listen [...] to your chin music.
at chin music, n.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 130: Where did ja cop dat monkeyface.
at monkey-face, n.
[US] C. Sandburg The People, Yes 80: They enjoy the oily slant-eyed spieler with his slick bazoo selling tickets and gabbing.
at gab, v.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 31: The bargains brandished with slambang hoots and yells, nods and winks, gee-whiz sales?
at gee-whiz, adj.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 36: Everything’s a racket, only the gyp artists get by.
at gyp artist (n.) under gyp, n.1
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 101: An old hogger.
at hogger, n.2
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 80: The people love to be humbugged.
at humbug, v.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 40: The loan shark victims.
at loan shark, n.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 165: The mazuma, the jack, the shekels, the kale.
at shekels, n.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 92: I always did say that car was no shucks in a real pinch.
at shucks, n.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 80: They enjoy the oily slant-eyed spieler with his slick bazoo selling tickets and gabbing.
at slick, adj.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 80: They enjoy the oily slant-eyed spieler with his slick bazoo selling tickets and gabbing.
at spieler, n.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 165: The what-it-takes, a roll, a wad.
at what it takes (n.) under take, v.
[US] C. Sandburg People, Yes 257: I’m just a palooka ... all washed up.
at washed up, adj.1
[US] C. Sandburg The People, Yes 125: Galloping cubes of fate hand us sevens elevens hand us the pretty numbers.
at galloping cubes (n.) under galloping, adj.
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