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[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 105: ‘You know what a. and b. is?’ ‘Assault and battery.’.
at a. and b., n.
[US] J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 3: Hardly a man-jack among them with more than [...] the raggedy-ass clothes he wore.
at ragged-arsed, adj.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 69: It was impossible for them to dog it as a muck-stick artist could.
at -artist, sfx
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 12: You sure as heck ought to know it.
at sure as hell under sure as..., phr.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 187: Everyone was barely dragging tail.
at drag ass, v.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 116: That shitass! I mean a real lawyer.
at shit ass, n.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 62: I want you to stop acting like Goddammned dreamy horse’s ass.
at horse’s ass, n.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 169: Everyone seemed to be grab-assing.
at grab-ass, v.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 157: Have you been popping off around camp about this?
at pop off (at the mouth), v.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 113: A character who backtalked and roughed up a cop.
at back-talk, v.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 95: The big boy didn’t tell you, huh?
at big boy, n.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 123: I put on my hat and picked up my bindle.
at bindle, n.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 46: Wingy was a boomer — a guy who made the boom camps.
at boomer, n.3
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 151: I braced Whitey for it [i.e. a job].
at brace, v.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 180: The pipeline bigshots your gang is bucking.
at buck, v.2
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 183: Forget Higby, I’m only putting the bug on my own back.
at bug, n.4
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 44: I’ve been tossing the bull around.
at toss the bull around (v.) under bull, n.6
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 110: Do you remember that big bust we went on in Dallas?
at bust, n.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 55: He knocked me cold with a hard clip to the button.
at button, n.1
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 95: We’ll do [...] [e]very damned bit of it before we button up the day.
at button up the day (v.) under button, v.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 82: He was afraid of getting canned.
at can, v.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 143: Copper had hired on late with a bad case of the brokes.
at case of the brokes (n.) under case, n.1
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 99: I felt [...] Shabby, cheap, crummy — all those things.
at cheap, adj.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 72: Maybe the line’s backers wouldn’t turn out to be so chinchy.
at chinchy, adj.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 25: Better start walking, you cheap chiseling punk!
at chisel, v.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 109: I told him that the chow was good.
at chow, n.1
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 146: You had to be chumped for murderin’ Bud.
at chump, v.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 213: I’d probably be dead right now of syph or clap.
at clap, n.
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 216: That last sentence was the clincher for me.
at clincher, n.1
[US] (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 55: He knocked me cold with a hard clip to the button.
at clip, n.2
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