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[Can] R. Service ‘Dumb Swede’ in Lyrics of a Low Brow 19: With barbwire hooch they filled him full / Till he was drunker than all hell.
at barbed wire, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘My Hero’ in Lyrics of a Low Brow 91: Feeling full of ginger for / He’s happy Pop of cherubs twin.
at ginger, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘Artist’ in Lyrics of a Low Brow 84: And some objected: ‘Well, I’m jiggered!’ / What price Picasso and Matisse?
at I’ll be jiggered! (excl.) under jigger, v.3
[Can] R. Service ‘Rosenstein’ Lyrics of a Low Brow 86: There’s money in Romance they say, / But my romance is piling pelf.
at pelf, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘My Husky Team’ in Lyrics of a Low Brow 26: ‘You know that Sourdoughs jest cain’t lie / So here’s the dope,’ he said.
at sour dough (n.) under sour, adj.
[Can] R. Service ‘My Future’ in Lyrics of a Low Brow 92: Said Mother with temper: ‘Oh stow it! / You know it, a poet’s a fool’.
at stow, v.
[Can] R. Service ‘Dumb Swede’ in Lyrics of a Low Brow 19: They reckoned they were mighty slick, / Them two tinhorns from Idaho.
at tinhorn, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘Rosenstein’ in Lyrics of a Low Brow 87: So each unto his job; and mine / Is making ‘undies’ for the dames.
at undies, n.
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