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[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 17: The ante-up bunch was grinning wickedly.
at ante-up, n.
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 35: Brophy’s bad medicine.
at bad medicine (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 11: I’m the biggest fool this side o’ the big ditch.
at big ditch (n.) under big, adj.
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 12: A man can drink an’ fight an’ carry on for a year at a clip.
at clip, n.1
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 10: You always was the most obstinate, high-headed, bull-intellected thin-skin ’at ever drew down top wages fer punchin’ cows.
at punch cows, v.
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 6: I mean it ain’t a fair shake.
at fair shake, n.
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 304: We sidled into a feed-joint.
at feed joint (n.) under feed, n.
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 304: Take the real native-son brand of Friscoite, an’ he’ll tell you ’at Frisco an’ Paradise are sunonomous [sic].
at ’Frisco, n.
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 34: He thought I was still on the grab.
at grab, n.1
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 10: You always was the most obstinate, high-headed, bull-intellected thin-skin ’at ever drew down top wages fer punchin’ cows.
at high-headed (adj.) under high, adj.1
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 10: ‘You go to Jericho, will you!’ snaps Jabez.
at go to Jericho (till your beard be grown)! (excl.) under Jericho, n.
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 13: ‘Marry me, kitten?’ sez I, laughin’ free an’ natural.
at kitten, n.
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 42: I’d allus heard ’at he was a rip-snortin’ screamer, an’ here he was talkin’ low an’ level like.
at screamer, n.
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 10: ‘What are you ridin’ that old skin for?’ sez he. ‘’Cause it’s the only pony I got,’ sez I.
at skin, n.1
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 304: A sort of kettle turned upside down an’ covered with feathers for a sky-piece.
at sky-piece (n.) under sky, n.1
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 280: She was in the habit of estimatin’ just how little nurishment it would take to run her to the next feed [...] an’ makin’ a streak for it.
at streak, n.
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 29: He had one big tearin’ time of it and sluiced himself out with gin an’ dug up his old profanity.
at tearing, adj.
[US] R.A. Wason Happy Hawkins 14: Two Greasers an’ a half blood Injun was playin’ poker with an old bunch o’ whiskers.
at whiskers, n.1
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