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[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 145: You mean the time you almost got your brains blew out getting shot in the so-and-so?
at so-and-so, n.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 11: Annie and Finn goes on this bat.
at on a bat under bat, n.3
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 136: Don’t it beat all hell.
at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 252: I’ve seen some old bladders throw a fit and claim where they just can’t stand men any more.
at bladder, n.2
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 176: Maybe I’d better give him the bounce.
at bounce, n.1
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 53: I think it’s the bugs [...] The old T.B.
at bug, n.4
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 212: Don’t try your bull-con on me.
at bull con (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 6: She’d throw Violet right out on her can if she found out.
at out on one’s can under can, n.1
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 15: He’s layin’ up in some coon joint.
at coon, adj.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 138: Frankie worked down to [sic] a crib-joint.
at crib joint (n.) under crib, n.1
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 204: Don’t be bashful, doll-baby.
at doll baby (n.) under doll, n.1
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 230: Not Cardy. Not that doormat grafter.
at doormat (thief) (n.) under doormat, n.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 6: [a brothel] She’d go back to them four-bit Hunyok dumps where she belongs.
at dump, n.3
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 204: ‘Listen, baby. I’ve took about enough of your sassy cracks.’ ‘Listen yourself. And I’ll slip you an earful.’.
at earful, n.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 10: He ain’t even a good elbow for that dip mob he trails with.
at elbow, n.1
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 223: You’re one of those fresh gazebos.
at gazabo, n.1
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 168: Horses cost heavy.
at heavy, adv.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 131: She’s full o’ hop.
at hop, n.3
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 229: You certainly made a monkey out of that kidney-foot bull.
at kidney-foot (n.) under kidney, n.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 58: He don’t lay up with no dame.
at lay up with (v.) under lay, v.1
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 166: ’Specially with the reformers all howling about the red-light.
at red light, n.1
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 252: A girl that will go down the line for a living would go down the line, regardless. And them that won’t — won’t.
at on the line under line , n.1
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 202: That’s just a lot of noodly talk.
at noodley, adj.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 180: ‘I’ll buy a drink.’ ‘Now you’re shouting.’.
at now you’re shouting, phr.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 228: Shooting off his bazoo like he owned the dump.
at shoot off one’s mouth (v.) under shoot off, v.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 48: Blanche is only a outside girl.
at outside girl (n.) under outside, adj.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 12: She tells him he can be her new pea-eye. [Ibid.] 206: ‘You mean you want to be my pea-eye?’ ‘Manager,’ said Norris. ‘Pimp,’ said Bessie.
at p.i., n.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 68: Well, owe it some more. You can peddle your hips for it. [Ibid.] 207: I’d rather peddle my shape in Shanghai Blum’s China cathouse.
at peddle one’s ass (v.) under peddle, v.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 63: I can’t stand cigarettes. Pimpsticks, I call ’em.
at pimp stick (n.) under pimp, n.
[US] W. Smith Bessie Cotter 117: You’ll get plastered if you don’t look out.
at plastered, adj.1
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