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[US] T. Thursday ‘Home Runyon’ in Sports Winners Feb. 🌐 Listen, boss [...] if you don’t tie the can to that dope’s tail I’m through!
at tie a can to (v.) under can, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Home Runyon’ in Sports Winners Feb. 🌐 That was the most perfect muff I ever seen.
at muff, n.2
[US] T. Thursday ‘Home Runyon’ in Sports Winners Feb. 🌐 But when the rest of the Crackers got a snifter of that handle they raised uncultured eyebrows and had fun.
at snifter, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Base on Balds’ in Sports Winners Spring 🌐 She gave his long hair the twice over, but heavy.
at but, adv.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Base on Balds’ in Sports Winners Spring 🌐 Among the weird and peculiar sights [...] are no less than four flippers who are as bald as both sides of a dime.
at flipper, n.3
[US] T. Thursday ‘Base on Balds’ in Sports Winners Spring 🌐 I think that mug is a very big four-flusher and besides that his hair ain’t real.
at four-flusher, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Base on Balds’ in Sports Winners Spring 🌐 We are now in the hole, which is no place to be.
at in the hole (adj.) under hole, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Base on Balds’ in Sports Winners Spring n.p.: This was a new kind of smile. The only ones we had seen before was always cocksure and smarty-pants.
at smarty-pants, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Base on Balds’ in Sports Winners Spring 🌐 We’re scheduled to play a scrub team with the high-sounding name of King Crackers.
at scrub, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Base on Balds’ in Sports Winners Spring 🌐 ‘Stir-rike!’ bellows the ump.
at ump, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Base on Balds’ Sports Winners Spring 🌐 ‘I shall settle with that wench once and for all!’ says Miss La Monte.
at wench, n.
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