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[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 174: Myrtle Courtland saw him coming across lots.
at across lots, phr.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 64: I’ll shove it [i.e. a pitchfork] so far up his butt he can smoke it for a cigar.
at shove it up your arse!, excl.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 13: A man of his word, he scrupulously kicked back a full third of the money he received.
at kick back, v.1
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 4: She could have, to use one of her favorite expressions, snatched the trainman bald-headed.
at snatch bald-headed (v.) under bald-headed, adv.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 1104: ‘Give me five cents’ worth of cheese, Sim.’ ‘Kind of blowin’ yourself, ain’t ye?’ said Simon.
at blow, v.2
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 41: All those bohunks and Poles and Rooshans are acting under direct orders from the Pope.
at bohunk, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 135: This old booger was about the funniest he’d run up against.
at booger, n.2
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 145: Yes, sir, boss. Now you want something cold?
at boss, n.2
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 278: Josephine hollered at her not to bust a blood vessel.
at bust a blood-vessel (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 145: The news butch was in on the green-goods racket. He was a peddler of brass watches and glass diamonds. He sold marked cards and crooked dice. And almost always he sold whisky.
at butcher, n.2
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 249: ‘I ain’t takin’ advantage of him.’ Gus said, ‘Crap!’.
at crap!, excl.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 243: Take your dadgummed trade somewheres else, and see if I care.
at dad-gum, adj.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 25: Well, I’ll be goddamned!
at I’ll be goddamned! (excl.) under god-damn, v.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 234: You don’t have to pay for it all, gosh-darn it.
at gosh-darn, v.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 12: And wasn’t it likely that he would have dug out or that the neighbor would have relented, anyway, in time?
at dig out, v.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 44: ‘Well, that doggone ornery kid!’ he said warmly.
at doggone, adj.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 189: The drummers ought to start coming through pretty soon now that the roads are clear.
at drummer, n.3
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 27: Even ol’ Dude Grant looked ready to fight at the drop of a hat today.
at dude, adj.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 72: Where do you go when you have to take a dump at night?
at take a dump (v.) under dump, n.4
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 113: Ritten strained a hiccough through his chest-length beard, fumigating the hall with the aroma of forty-rod.
at forty-rod (lightning) (n.) under forty, adj.1
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 224: That’s right, by gadfrey! So he did.
at Godfrey, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 145: The news butch was in on the green-goods racket. He was a peddler of brass watches and glass diamonds. He sold marked cards and crooked dice. And almost always he sold whisky.
at green goods, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 226: There was no way he could lie out of it. They had the goods on him.
at have the goods on someone (v.) under goods, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 103: He wished to gosh that someone would get murdered or something.
at gosh, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 224: Sour as billy-hell, ain’t it?
at billy hell (n.) under hell, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 34: If they [i.e. children] got out of line, you tanned their hides with a bit of harness.
at tan someone’s hide (v.) under hide, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 257: They came down three hours late this morning [and] the foreman hopped them about it.
at hop, v.1
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 71: She’s a humdinger, too, ain’t, she Gus?
at humdinger, n.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 40: There’s a couple of hunky brothers up the Calamus that own a thresher.
at hunky, adj.2
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 47: He’s bamboozled and bulldozed a lot of these light-wits into signing over their property to him.
at lightwit (n.) under light, adj.
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