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Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist choose

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[US] ‘The Ballad Mongers’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 52: ‘All around your hat,’ Sirs.
at all around my hat, phr.
[US] ‘The Stagestruck Chambermaid’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 58: The Ladies call me Saucy Kate, / The Men an out-and-outer.
at out-and-outer, n.
[US] ‘When I was down to Sweeny’s’ Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 13: My mother always said to me, / I was a cunning blade.
at blade, n.
[US] ‘Julius’ Visit to Governor King’ Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 27: All de speakers were a blowin’ / Away wid all dar might. / ‘It is but a slight argument / Upon some foolish thing’ [...] Said our Governor King.
at blow, v.1
[US] ‘I Wish I’d a Shilling a Day!’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 38: You’re an old blower, you know, Jimmy Green.
at blower, n.2
[US] ‘That’s the Chisel!’ Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 35: The City’s laws, I did repeal, / I did, so ‘help me Bob!’.
at s’elp me bob!, excl.
[US] ‘Bobbing around!’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 19: The air is old, but the words are new, / For I’ve been bobbing around.
at bob around (v.) under bob, v.3
[US] ‘That’s the Chisel!’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 36: Now all you coves, that’s on the bum, / Make all your cronies mizzle, / And to the Mission house do come, / For I tell you, ‘that’s the chisel’.
at on a/the bum under bum, n.3
[US] ‘Pike’s Peak’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 12: I had got nary a red cent.
at red cent, n.
[US] ‘Pike’s Peak’ Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 10: So I at once resolved to go [...] Bound at the gold to have a crack, / Out in Pike’s Peak diggings.
at have a crack at (v.) under crack, n.1
[US] ‘Kate’s Medley’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 65: I went to the Gaieties, / To see Pell cut his funny tricks [...] All cutting, cut, cut, cutting, / We’re all cutting our way through the world, / Some are cutting to get rich, others cut in vain.
at cut, v.3
[US] ‘The Old Shipyard’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 58: I’m dead broke to-day, in the old Shipyard.
at dead broke (adj.) under dead, adv.
[US] ‘Divil’s own Boy’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 17: Says I: ‘Give up! for I am done, / Sure I am the divil’s boy!’.
at done, adj.
[US] ‘The Divil’s own Boy’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 16: One Mickey Free, from Dublin town.
at mickey, n.1
[US] ‘When I was down to Sweeny’s’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 14: And then to have some good frogs’ legs [...] And top off, with two fried eggs.
at top off, v.
[US] ‘Divil’s own Boy’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 18: I raised old scratch at such a rate, / I had to cut my stick away.
at old Scratch (n.) under old, adj.
[US] ‘Kate’s Medley’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 65: While pegging into lots of Gin.
at peg, v.3
[US] ‘The Old Shipyard’ Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 58: If you want a smash, you must poney the cash.
at pony (up), v.
[US] ‘The Divil’s own Boy’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 17: When the shindy it was over, / And the fracas it was done.
at shindy, n.
[US] ‘Bobbing around!’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 21: Oh, banks will burst, and brokers smash.
at smash, v.1
[US] ‘Bobbing around!’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 19: And when you ask him for your cash [...] Says he: ‘Old boy, I’ve gone to smash’.
at go (to) smash (v.) under smash, n.1
[US] ‘Bobbing around!’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 19: Old boy, I’ve gone to smash, / ’Cause I went bobbing around.
at go (to) smash (v.) under smash, n.1
[US] ‘The Old Shipyard’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 58: If you want a smash, you must poney the cash.
at smash, n.1
[US] ‘The Stagestruck Chambermaid’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 58: [of an actress] The servants say I am first rate, / Since I became a Spouter.
at spouter, n.1
[US] ‘Julius’ Visit to Governor King’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 25: Travellin’, for me, / Am just de very ting!
at thing, the, n.
[US] ‘Bobbing around!’ in Fred Shaw’s Champion Comic Melodist 20: Be so kind as to lend me a V.
at V, n.1
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