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[Can] ‘O. Henry’ cartoon caption in Rolling Stone in Rolling Stones (1913) 96: See him do it. Can John find the ball? Is it in the cup? No, it is not in it: Neither is John.
at in it, adj.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Baldness of Chewed-Ear’ in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 140: The Syndicate sold out too soon, and Chewed-ear turned the trick.
at turn a trick, v.1
[Can] R. Service ‘The Wanderlust’ in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 124: The Wanderlust has got me . . . by the belly-aching fire, / By the fever and the freezing and the pain.
at belly-ache, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Baldness of Chewed-Ear’ in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 134: Why! Missis Chewed-ear Jenkins jest went clean up in the air.
at go up in the air (v.) under air, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘Barb-Wire Bill’ in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 75: For ‘barb-wire’ was the brand of ‘hooch’ to which he most inclined.
at barbed wire, n.1
[Can] R. Service Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 104: ‘The Cow-Juice Cure’ [title].
at cow juice (n.) under cow, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘The Cow-Juice Cure’ in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 55: Gosh ding my dasted eyes.
at dasted, adj.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Baldness of Chewed-Ear’ in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 136: The boys wuz on, an’ soon chipped in the necessary dust.
at dust, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Cow-Juice Cure’ in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 55: Gosh ding my dasted eyes.
at gosh-ding (v.) under gosh, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Dreamer’ Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 144: Od’s blood! but he was tired.
at ods blood! (excl.) under ods, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘I’m Scared of it All’ Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 159: I’m trapped like a fox and I fear for my pelt.
at pelt, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘Barb-Wire Bill’ in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 85: Though no saint on earth, d’ye think—Bill’s squared hisself with Heaven?
at square, v.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Baldness of Chewed-Ear’ in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 138: A thousand dollars! Sufferin’ Caesar!
at suffering —!, excl.
[Can] F. Stone Rolling Stone 91: The beer slinger didn't get the gold, for a little while later he died of pneumonia.
at beer-slinger (n.) under beer, n.
[Can] H.S. Thompson in Rolling Stone 11 Nov. 38/4: But what was the story? Nobody had bothered to say. So we would have to drum it up on our own. Free Enterprise. The American Dream. Horatio Alger gone mad on drugs in Las Vegas. Do it now: pure Gonzo journalism.
at gonzo, adj.1
[Can] C. Manson in Rolling Stone 21 Nov. 🌐 You think I’m too old to jack off. [...] But I’m not. I’m still active with my roscoe. I’m still me.
at roscoe, n.
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