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Sporting Life 26 Mar. 3/2: [A] capital pack of harriers, with which one might always sure for a clinking good run.at clinking, adv.
Sporting Life 26 Mar. 3/2: [A] capital pack of harriers, with which one might always sure for a clinking good run. Sporting Life 11 Feb. 3/2: [S]ome of the most determined fighting ever seen ensued, both pegging away with a will, and fighting all over the ring, until both were down.at peg away (v.) under peg, v.2
Sporting Life 28 Feb. 3/4: Ruff again planting a spanking blow.at spanking, adj.
Sporting Life 5 Nov. (Leader) n.p.: Captain Armstrong is again abroad, muscular and powerful, riding his favourite hobby in the steeple-chase field [...] [F&H].at Captain Armstrong (n.) under captain, n.
Sporting Life 11 July 2/4: Horse-leech; you may swim at ease, / And smile at all the similes.at horse leech (n.) under horse, n.
Sporting Life 11 July 2/4: Horse laughs show the pure ‘blue blood.’ Ditto does a ‘Horse-godmother’.at horse godmother (n.) under horse, n.
Sporting Life 20 Mar. 2/4: Conundrum is decidedly the best of the bunch as he is a good horse and a splendid mover.at bunch, n.1
Sporting Life 23 Mar. 2/4: Wolsey, Sir Joseph Hawley [...] believed was a clinking good horse.at clinking, adv.
Sporting Life 21 Sept. n.p.: Money which people have been ‘welshed’ out of.at welch, v.
Sporting Life 27 May 4: Maybe Manager Bancroft isn’t regarded as a chump by baseball people.at chump, n.
N.Y. Sporting Life 15 Apr. 1: Lewis whanged it nicely to centre field.at whang, v.
Sporting Life 19 Aug. 1/2: There will be a mad baseball reporter in the ‘city of winds’ before sundown.at Windy City, n.
N.Y. Sporting Life 14 Jan. 4: Morris’ quick throw over to first with that south paw of his.at southpaw, n.
Sporting Life 29 Sept 4/6: [heading] Joe Quinn is troubled with ‘Charley-horse.’.at charley horse, n.
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Sporting Life 7 Apr. 2: Nashville presented her left-handed battery, Earle and Brynan, to offset our ‘lefty’ battery, Krehmyer and O’Leary [OED].at lefty, adj.
Sporting Life 11 Dec. n.p.: Just on the completion of the minute grassed his man with a swinging right-hander [F&H].at grass, v.1
Sporting Life 15 Dec. in Farmer & Henley Slang and Its Analogues III 227/1: Preferred to be easily knocked out to taking his gruel like a man.at take one’s gruel (v.) under gruel, n.
Sporting Life 7 Dec. n.p.: So quiet was the first round that the ire of the company was raised, and they called out, ‘No hank!’ [F&H].at hank, n.3
in Sporting Life 28 Nov. n.p.: On new premises [...] where erstwhile the click of ivories was heard.at ivory, n.
Sporting Life 15 Dec. n.p.: Ask Mr. Baldock... to whom I allude, and he will probably reply the champion kidder [F&H].at kidder, n.
Sporting Life 10 Dec. n.p.: With only 29 to win, White at his next attempt knocked up the necessary item [F&H].at knock up, v.
Sporting Life 5 June 1/2: Aspen has jumped from tail-end to second place and is playing a rattling hurrah game of ball [DA].at hurrah, adj.
Sporting Life 28 Mar. n.p.: It must be confessed that the ludicrous was attained when Griffiths subsequently appeared with a short black pipe in his distorted and battered frontispiece [F&H].at frontispiece, n.
Sporting Life 25 Mar. n.p.: He goes into a ring to fight his man, not to spar and look pretty, and run, and dodge, and guiver [F&H].at guiver, v.
Sporting Life 28 Mar. n.p.: Accordingly Jem was put to work, but, warm a member as our hero was, standing in front of a blazing furnace for hours [...] was too hot even for Jem’s sanguinary temperament [F&H].at member, n.2
Sporting Life 1 Apr. n.p.: Then came [...] ‘The Pocket Knifton’ (whose real moniker did not transpire) [F&H].at monniker, n.
Sporting Life 20 Mar. 16: I recall his recent half-mile at Oxford, when he romped home in the easiest possible manner [F&H].at romp home (v.) under romp, v.
Sporting Life 25 Mar. n.p.: Goddard was smothered in the rosy as he went to his chair [F&H].at rosy, the, n.
Sporting Life 19 Aug. 2/4: R. Goodman is the Leadinq Turf Telegraphist and the man to follow. [...] No guesswork. No Twaddle. No Continental nor Chinese Napoleonism. No incompetent gas-baggery. No clap-trap.at gasbaggery (n.) under gasbag, n.
Sporting Life 19 Sept. in Unforgettable Season (1981) 232: The proper pronunciation of the word ‘lallapaloosa.’.at lallapaloosa, n.
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