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[US] E.C. Segar ‘Popeye’ Thimble Theatre series No. 1 n.p.: Blow me down! a Injun!
at blow me down!, excl.
[US] E.C. Segar ‘Popeye’ Thimble Theatre series No. 1 n.p.: I’ll handle the money because you’re a crap-shooter at heart.
at crap shooter (n.) under crap, n.1
[US] E.C. Segar ‘Popeye’ Thimble Theatre series No. 1 n.p.: Yer goner get the sockin’ of yer life!
at socking, n.
[US] E.C. Segar ‘Popeye’ Thimble Theatre series No. 2 n.p.: We ain’t goner mix up in no ‘half-pint’ wars.
at half-pint, adj.
[US] E.C. Segar ‘Popeye’ Thimble Theatre series No. 2 n.p.: You’d get the heck knocked outta you.
at knock (the) hell of out (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[US] E.C. Segar ‘Popeye’ Thimble Theatre Ser. 2 n.p.: That’s out! We refuses to fight against cowards.
at out, adv.1
[US] E.C. Segar ‘Popeye’ Thimble Theatre series No. 2 n.p.: Orderly, come here – snap into it.
at snap into it (v.) under snap, v.
[US] E.C. Segar ‘Popeye’ Thimble Theatre Ser. 2 n.p.: If you youngstirs wants to be healthy like me ya got to eat yer weeds like yer maw sez – yers trulie Popeye.
at weed, n.1
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