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Professor How Could You! choose

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[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 237: You doing a Rube act?
at do a/an — act (v.) under act, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 137: After I had done my song-and-dance (apple-sauce) about the bitters [...] he turned me down cold.
at apple sauce, n.2
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 268: You are just a wistful old bearcat [... ] one, in short, with a magnetic personality whose power over such as won his notice would be found all too plausible by casual reporters.
at bear cat (n.) under bear, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 238: ‘Bingo!’ cried the woman at this.
at bingo!, excl.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 141: Well, you old bonehead (one of strong character!).
at bonehead, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 247: It certainly does make a brutal overhead for a snare like this, poppa.
at brutal, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 264: He is following my trail [...] and any moment he is liable to come with a couple of bulldogs and pinch me.
at bulldog, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 230: It was certainly soft sugar for that buttercup.
at buttercup (n.) under butter, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 188: Mrs. Gale rather looked down upon her neighbors, calling them fly-by-nights.
at fly-by-night, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 317: She ain’t got a Chinaman’s chance.
at Chinaman’s chance, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 319: It’s a cinch bet they are now chasing me to K.C.
at cinch, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 338: We had some lively bouts with the hazardous cubes.
at cube, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 313: Why, you sly old cutie! Who’d have thought it?
at cutie, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 72: Any dipper that tries to frisk you will have his work cut out.
at dipper, n.2
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 233: She was dog-tired and would like to hit the good old hay.
at dog-tired (adj.) under dog, adv.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 266: He plays the piano with Reddick, and he’s some Humpty-Dumpty on it.
at humpty-dumpty, n.2
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 142: It’s foolish for a couple of grown men [...] to let a nitwit like that dutch up the best route in Iowa.
at Dutch, v.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 90: However, I have a flash. I got it when come along in that car.
at flash, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 265: We couldn’t turn the poor old fluff (sap) loose.
at fluff, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 312: I fell in with the frail that runs a meat joint and she told me all about our doings.
at frail, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 120: If any of these yaps (hicks) tries to get funny, just give him a dirty look and clam up.
at get funny with (v.) under funny, adj.2
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 109: Do it with real acting so the hicks (suburbanites) will think they’re getting the real gazukus. [Ibid.] 124: I will say you are the goods (the gazukus).
at gazookus, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 315: Say what you will, he’s got a world of gimp.
at gimp, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 66: You are a wreck, a down-and-outer, and pretty far gone.
at gone, adj.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 276: Don’t I get a chance at the real gravy?
at gravy, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 333: The poor gulps can’t touch your lines.
at gulpin, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 100: Heap big Injun!
at heap, adv.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 206: Driving my car around hog-wild, jamming its fenders against every tree in the whole country.
at hog-wild (adj.) under hog, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 148: Of course the poor fish (demented person) ought to be some good booby-hatch (hoosegow).
at hoosegow, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 66: Maybe you have the makings of a man left in that old hulk yet.
at hulk, n.
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