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[US] in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 140/2: The development of the word date from the meaning ‘point of time’ to [...] ‘social engagement’ and now into an agent-noun ‘escort’ .
at date, n.1
[US] cited in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 114/2: He couldn’t rate a blind date with a cold biscuit.
at biscuit, n.1
[US] cited in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 311/1: The day’s losses – $39,374! Quite a kick in the labonza.
at labonza, n.
[US] in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1960) 49/2: [Scriptwriters are] always trying for a boff . . . a laugh.
at boff, n.2
[US] cited in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 72/2: Then slip me a bullhead. I need a java.
at bull-head, n.3
[US] cited in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 274/1: I’d never get the deep undying hots for that rah rah collitch [boy].
at hots, the, n.
[US] cited in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 428/2: ‘He was afraid to attempt ringing’ [...] ‘Barrie had rung Aknahton as Hickey at Bopwie.’.
at ring, v.
[US] cited in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 441/1: That [$4,100] is nice salve, even after taxes.
at salve, n.
[US] cited in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 3491: The police passed around a mug shot of Willie.
at mug shot, n.
[US] cited in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975).
at dipsy-doodle, v.
[US] in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 298/1: Bill takes venom from the snakes [...] as nonchalantly as a farmer juices a gentle Jersey cow .
at juice, v.
[US] cited in Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
at glop, n.
[US] in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975).
at hambone, n.1
[US] Associated Press 2 Dec. in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 294/1: Already the jukes and jocks are dinning our ears with Christmas songs .
at jock, n.2
[US] cited in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 105/1: ‘In Vegas you scoff either downtown at the Golden Nugget [...] or else you eat chuck wagon on the strip.’.
at chuck wagon (n.) under chuck, n.3
[US] in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975).
at date bait (n.) under date, n.1
[US] in Wentworth & Flexner DAS (1975) 142/1: ‘We should charge a dollar extra to the motel because we have to deadhead back to town.’.
at deadhead, v.
, [US] Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
at blow up a storm, v.
, [US] Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
at ding-a-ling, n.1
, [US] (ref. to 1920s) Wentworth & Flexner DAS 136/2: cut didoes To be frolicsome.
at cut up a dido, v.
, [US] Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
at a.d., n.2
, [US] Wentworth & Flexner DAS 1/2: ac-dc ac/dc adj. Bisexual. Some jocular use since c.1940.
at AC/DC, adj.
, [US] Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
at adobe dollar (n.) under adobe, adj.
, [US] Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
at I’m afloat, n.
, [US] Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
at false alarm, n.2
, [US] Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
at alfalfa, n.
, [US] Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
at alfalfa, n.
, [US] Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
at alley apple (n.) under alley, n.1
, [US] Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
at ameche, n.
, [US] Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
at spic and span, n.
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