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[US] in ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home (1872) 395: Every third Chinaman runs a lottery, and the balance of the tribe ‘buck’ at it.
at buck, v.2
[US] in ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home (1872) 396: We ate chow-chow with chop-sticks in the celestial restaurants.
at celestial, adj.2
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home (1872) 396: We ate chow-chow with chop-sticks in the celestial restaurants.
at chow-chow, n.1
[US] in ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home (1872) 395: John likes it [opium], though; it soothes him; he takes about two dozen whiffs, and then rolls over to dream, Heaven only knows what, for we could not imagine by looking at the soggy creature.
at John, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 333: It’s all up, you know, it’s all up. It ain’t no use. They’ve scooped him.
at all up, adj.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 386: He was anchored out that way, in frosty weather, for about three weeks.
at anchor, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 332: I reckon I can’t call that hand. Ante and pass the buck.
at ante (up), v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 328: For clean, cool, out-and-out cheek, if this don’t bang anything that ever I saw.
at bang, v.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 357: There’ll be a double-barreled inquest here when this trial’s off.
at double-barrelled, adj.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 357: ‘If he’s proven guilty.’ ‘Great Neptune, ain’t he guilty? This beats my time.’.
at beat someone’s time (v.) under beat, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 327: Come right along, friends [...] This is a free blow-out.
at blow-out, n.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 334: Some roughs jumped the Catholic bone-yard.
at boneyard, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 485: A stately ‘buck’ Kanaka would stalk in with a woman’s bonnet on, wrong side before – only this, and nothing more.
at buck, adj.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 332: Well, you’ve ruther got the bulge on me.
at have the bulge on (v.) under bulge, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 334: Put Buck through as bully as you can, pard.
at bully, adv.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 346: I would publish the name, but for the suspicion that he might come and carve me.
at carve, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 422: [pic. caption] The ‘One-Horse Shay’ Out-done.
at chay, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 336: Cheese it, pard.
at cheese it!, excl.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 332: The thing I’m now on is to roust out somebody to jerk a little chin-music for us.
at jerk chin music (v.) under chin music, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 336: Pard, he was a great loss to this town. It would please the boys if you could chip in something like that, and do him justice.
at chip in, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home I 356: I’ll be there and chip in and help, too.
at chip in, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 441: He got to comin’ down the shaft [...] to try to cipher it out.
at cipher, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 334: He went for ’em! And he cleaned ’em, too!
at clean, v.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 334: He didn’t give a continental for anybody.
at continental, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 394: If the government sells a gang of Coolies to a foreigner [...] it is specified that their bodies shall be restored to China in case of death.
at coolie, n.1
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 20: He didn’t give a continental for anybody. Beg your pardon, friend, for coming so near saying a cuss-word [JSF].
at cuss-word (n.) under cuss, n.2
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 388: That man’s life was fooled away just out of a dern’d experiment.
at darned, adj.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 385: She was always dropping it [i.e. a glass eye] out and turning up her old dead-light on the company empty.
at deadlights (n.) under dead, adj.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 332: You are the head clerk of the doxology works next door.
at doxology-works, n.
[US] ‘Mark Twain’ Innocents at Home 334: I’m on an awful strain [...] on account of having to cramp down and draw everything so mild.
at draw it mild, v.
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