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[US] W.C. Scott ‘Take ’Im Alive’ Und. Mag. May 🌐 This here cashier, Cyrus Rathbone [...] who ducked outta th’ Citizens National Bank with twenty grand in currency is our bacon.
at bacon, n.1
[US] W. Scott ‘Take ’Im Alive’ Und. Mag. May 🌐 Greetings, Hardhead. Going to shell out like a beer baron on a souse, eh?
at baron, n.
[US] W.C. Scott ‘Take ’Im Alive’ Und. Mag. May 🌐 Lissen, Jake—I got a fat deal for you.
at fat, adj.
[US] W. Scott ‘Take ’Im Alive’ Und. Mag. May 🌐 Where’d you hide the old grouch-bag, rat?
at grouch-bag (n.) under grouch, n.
[US] W. Scott ‘Take ’Im Alive’ Und. Mag. May 🌐 Greetings, Hardhead. Going to shell out like a beer baron on a souse, eh?
at hardhead, n.
[US] W.C. Scott ‘Take ’Im Alive’ Und. Mag. May 🌐 What in billy-hell’s all this to me?
at billy hell (n.) under hell, n.
[US] W. Scott ‘Take ’Im Alive’ Und. Mag. May 🌐 Headquarters would run me ragged if I messed in that case to chisel in on th’ reward.
at run someone ragged (v.) under run, v.
[US] W. Scott ‘Take ’Im Alive’ Und. Mag. May 🌐 Greetings, Hardhead. Going to shell out like a beer baron on a souse, eh?
at souse, n.
[US] W. Scott ‘Take ’Im Alive’ Und. Mag. May 🌐 Michael Whorl, taxidermist—an old stir-bum, known to th’ mob as Chuck ‘Hardhead’ Yandi.
at stirbum (n.) under stir, n.1
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