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A Texas Cow Boy choose

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[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 164: He was three sheets in the wind, but swore he hadn’t drank anything but ‘Tom and Jerry.’.
at tom and jerry, n.1
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 132: I am going to blow your light out.
at blow out someone’s light(s) (v.) under blow out, v.1
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 33: It’s a trade buddy, but you will have to go up to that little house yonder, to get the money.
at buddy, n.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 76: I built it from an old torn down house that I bought [...] on ‘tick’ for I was then financially ‘busted’.
at busted (out), adj.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 40: I used to get my chuck from the cook.
at chuck, n.3
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 70: Jack being an Irishman, couldn’t resist the temptation of taking a ‘wee drop of the critter’ every fifteen or twenty minutes.
at critter, n.
[US] C.A. Siringo A Texas Cow Boy (1950) 113: Why, Dum-it-all.
at damn it!, excl.
[US] C.A. Siringo A Texas Cow Boy (1950) 113: Dum it to h--l, I can’t pay no such bills as those!
at dammit to hell (and back)! (excl.) under damn it!, excl.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 110: I intend to give you a brief sketch of Billy’s doings.
at doings, n.1
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 46: The two Pierce’s had come out there from Yankeedom a few years before.
at -dom, sfx
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 46: He gave me fits for laying a negro out.
at give someone fits (v.) under fit, n.3
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 133: Several bullets from the ‘Kids’ well aimed ‘45’ had pierced his body. [Ibid.] 148: I kept my hand near old Colt’s ‘45’.
at forty-five, n.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 95: I then concluded to cut the rope and let her go, so getting out my old frog-sticker [...] I went to work.
at frogsticker (n.) under frog, n.1
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 78: It was [...] dangerous to cross. But the wagons being over made it a ground hog case—or at least we thought so.
at groundhog case (n.) under ground-hog, n.2
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 81: One of them finally ‘put a head on me’ — or in grammatical words, gave me a black eye.
at put a (new) head on someone (v.) under head, n.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 179: Mrs. Newell had accompanied Bulah [...] so as to keep ‘the wild rattled-brain girl,’ as she called her, under her wing.
at rattle-head, n.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 103: We suceeded in finding two little knotty-headed two-year old steers.
at knot-headed, adj.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 100: John and I [...] had a hog killing time all by ourselves.
at hog-killing (time) (n.) under hog, n.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 27: A policeman punched me in the ribs and told me to ‘hunt my hole’ and that if he caught me out again so late at night he would put me in the cooler.
at hunt one’s hole (v.) under hole, n.1
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 39: He jumped ten feet in the air and roared out ‘Holy Moses!’.
at holy Moses! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 127: I put [...] thirty-five dollars on the Queen, or ‘horse,’ as it is called, being the picture of a woman on horseback.
at horse, n.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 92: That night I quit and went to town to ‘whoop ’em up Liza Jane.’.
at whoop it up, v.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy 146: [I] had a gay old time drinking kill-me-quick whisky.
at kill-me-quick (n.) under kill, v.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 57: I was too badly ‘locoed’ to tell a good horse from a bad one.
at locoed (adj.) under loco/loca, adj.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 61: Charlie, his brother, was a white man.
at white man, n.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 131: Mr. ‘Nig’ hadn’t gone but a few hundred yards when he was captured by the White Oak boys.
at Mr, n.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 166: ‘Pig-tails’ have shunned Toyah ever since.
at pigtail, n.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 132: ‘Jim’ of course didn’t relish the half pint of rot-gut that he was forced to drink.
at rotgut, n.
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 45: Mr. ‘Shanghai’ had the fun of selling them over again, to some other greeny.
at shanghai, n.1
[US] C.A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy (1950) 33: They [...] asked me how much I would take for my ‘shooter?’.
at shooter, n.1
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