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Raiders of the Rimrock choose

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[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 67: You’ll catch pneumony sure as shooting.
at sure as shooting under sure as..., phr.
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 85: It’s root hog or die now, Lugan! Hell, what’s stoppin’ Sands from havin’ the whole lot of us beefed? [Ibid.] 202: ‘Three jaspers tried to beef me to-night,’ Tim said quietly. ‘I killed two. I’m looking for the third.’.
at beef, v.2
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 37: ‘I came to apologize.’ ‘For being bull-headed?’ Martha asked, smiling.
at bullheaded, adj.
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 85: It’s root hog or die now, Lugan! Hell, what’s stoppin’ Sands from havin’ the whole lot of us beefed? If this country is runnin’ under bushwack law now we might’s well plan to fight it. [Ibid.] 86: A stranger had figered he could take over a whole county by bushwack.
at bushwhack, n.
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 241: I’m cashin’ in my chips. And I want to die on my own land, in my own house.
at cash in one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 85: It’s root hog or die now, Lugan! Hell, what’s stoppin’ Sands from havin’ the whole lot of us beefed?
at root, hog or die, v.
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 182: What do you think I’m on the dodge for? [...] I’m tryin’ to keep from gettin’ a slug in my back.
at on the dodge under dodge, n.
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 135: He scarcely had time to begin shucking out the empties in his gun before the horseman bore down on him.
at empty, n.1
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 85: Will Mersey was a fumble-fingered hammerhead that was bound to end up that way.
at hammerhead, n.1
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 66: Well, don’t that beat hell.
at beat hell (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 209: Miss Kincaid, you jughead!
at jughead, n.1
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 36: Why don’t these jugheaded big ranchers get together and buy these nesters out? [Ibid.] 43: You damn’ jug-headed fool.
at jugheaded, adj.
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 206: This, he guessed, was the pay-off.
at payoff, n.
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 97: I’m kept busy without sashayin’ around watching Sands.
at sashay, v.
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 115: Better shut that dog up.
at shut up, v.
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 66: Something’s spookin’ him down here.
at spook, v.
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 106: The yard [...] was spotted with tarp-covered goods.
at tarp, n.
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 37: You’re the only nester I’d touch with a ten-foot pole.
at wouldn’t touch it with a (barge-)pole under touch, v.1
[UK] L. Short Raiders of the Rimrock 61: I told you to stay on that side of the river with your woollies.
at woolly, n.
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