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[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 175: Why I just sit down and pole to beat the band.
at to beat the band (adv.) under band, n.2
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 122: You know the crowd you’ll blow with and the clubs you’ll be in.
at blow, v.1
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 65: Do not chew a rag because your little poler did not develop as you wanted him to.
at chew the rag, v.
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 30: The two spreers were the coolest on the campus.
at cool, adj.
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 22: Oh, cork up, you big cow!
at cork up, v.
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 22: Oh, cork up, you big cow!
at cow, n.1
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 22: Oh, cork up, you big cow!
at cow, n.1
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 39: At the eating clubs they call the milk-pitcher the ‘cow’.
at cow, n.1
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 39: Others dissipate merely to the extent of cutting chapel twice in succession or pretending that they have not poled all night for an examination.
at cut, v.4
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 11: Dash it! I wish to dash you fellows would dash quickly get to dash out of here.
at dash, n.5
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 39: In freshman year they say, ‘Are you ready to feed your face?’.
at feed one’s face, v.
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 39: He proposes that we pole the Greek.
at pole, v.
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 41: He studied for high, marks and was called a ‘greasy poler’.
at poler, n.1
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 175: Aw, let’s get out of here, this beer is rotten.
at rotten, adj.
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 63: He only answered ‘Naw. That don’t amount to anything. Shoot.’.
at shoot!, excl.1
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 11: This is my room and, dash it all, I loaned it to the dash freshmen spreers and not to the whole dash college.
at spree, v.
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 47: To them Jack turned with some heat, and observed, ‘You fellows make me tired.’.
at make someone tired (v.) under tired, adj.
[US] J.L. Williams Princeton Stories 154: This thing is wild oats [...] is all wrong, all nonsense, all Tommy-rot.
at tommyrot, n.
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