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Adventures of a Boomer Op. choose

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[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 52: They both blow in, drunker than seven million dollars.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 35: ‘Come again on that initial,’ says I.
at come again, v.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 45: That morning in Great Falls got my Angora.
at get someone’s angora (v.) under angora, n.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 28: I was setting in one of these one-armed man’s restaurants, eating ‘hot dog’ and trying to figure out some way to stop the war.
at one-arm (joint), n.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 73: The ‘Bus’ was hitched to a piece of crow-bait that was born when chickens sold for two bits apiece.
at crow-bait, n.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 48: You know what kind of a bone you always pull in an emergency, well, you let me do the talking in this case.
at pull a boner (v.) under boner, n.3
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 59: This ‘Boomin’ around don’t pay, Hi [...] and your Unk Bill is going to cut it cold.
at boom, v.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 31: The boss told him was fired.
at boss, n.2
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 11: Boy Howdy, he had lost all the religion he ever did have.
at boy howdy! (excl.) under boy, n.2
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 48: I saw the ‘Brains’ talking to the Yard Master.
at brain, n.1
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 78: I believe I will [...] hit the breeze for Ohio.
at hit the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 93: He’d never say ‘No’ to a wandering Bro’ / Who asked him for a meal.
at bro, n.1
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 62: He also wears a bunch of brush on his upper lip that would make a good soup strainer.
at brush, n.4
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 11: Johnson’s specialty was telling lies [...] he would have made a ‘Bullwhacker’ sound like a preacher when it came to that kind of talk.
at bullwhacker, n.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 83: I was bumped off temporarily at Soissons, recovered in time to go along with the bunch thru Belleau Wood.
at bump (off), v.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 83: Well, old Cake Eater, it’s been almost two years since I have written you.
at cake-eater (n.) under cake, n.1
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 51: Now I don’t mind a little rubber-necking with our friend the camel driver.
at camel-driver (n.) under camel, n.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 60: If his chin music had been morse he’d had Barfield looking like a cadet in a ‘Ham Factory’.
at chin music, n.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 41: ‘Say, look here old Chocolate Drop,’ says Red, ‘why all this glee stuff.’ ‘Nothin’ sah. Skue me sah.’.
at chocolate drop (n.) under chocolate, adj.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 11: He didn’t have any horn; he didn’t need it on that ‘cootie’ of his.
at cootie, n.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 19: Riding in a ‘Crummy’ that had about as much ventilation as the inside of a vacuum cleaner.
at crummy, n.3
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 59: This ‘Boomin’’ around don’t pay, Hi [...] and your Unk Bill is going to cut it cold.
at cut, v.4
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 13: If I relieved every one of you fellows [...] we would have to run a special train to take care of you, so ‘Nothin’ Doin’’.
at nothing doing, phr.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 26: This is the first time I’ve been in front of the feed box today.
at feed-box (n.) under feed, n.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 22: Any woman that would ever take to that fish, would either be doing one of three things.
at fish, n.1
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 83: Anyway, I spent eighteen months shooting Fritzies and trying to make the world safe for the Democrats.
at Fritz, n.
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 60: There wasn’t anything to his gab, that was the worst of it.
at gab, n.2
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 40: I guess by this time, we had about all the passengers in the car awake [...] when George shakes the curtain. ‘Skuse me boss, but is dar anything I kin do?’.
at George, n.3
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 27: There stood a guy about six foot four and as broad as a moving van, was a good natured looking gink though.
at gink, n.1
[US] M.E. Smith Adventures of a Boomer Op. 26: ‘Gwan,’ says I, without even looking up. ‘Nothing doing.’.
at go on!, excl.
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