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[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 197: When I got into the parlour she had them on, pleased as all get-out.
at all get out, phr.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 353: Everybody was kind of glad he’d got off and kind of satisfied that he’d put this bad Injin, with his skull-duggery, over the big jump.
at big jump (n.) under big, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 127: It was a funny blow-up.
at blow-up, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 63: I’m darned if he didn’t hang in a strained manner over that box, like he was the one that was doing it all and it wouldn’t get the notes right if he took his attention off. ‘It was a first-class record, I’ll say that.’.
at box, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 329: He orders Pete up on the carpet.
at on the carpet under carpet, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 7: That Ben Sutton, now, he’s a case.
at case, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 63: Kind of like him Wilbur was, talking subdued and cat-footing round very solemn.
at cat-foot, v.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 253: Cousin Egbert was still chipper after this reverse.
at chipper, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 164: ‘Perhaps under the tables,’ says young Angus, chirking up still more.
at chirk (up), v.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 237: When I ask for details he just clams up.
at clam (up), v.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 327: Some silly game he tried to come the roots over folks with.
at come the roots over (v.) under come the..., v.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 92: ‘Now – I found ’em,’ pleaded the bad man [...] ‘Cooned ’em, you mean!’ thundered the judge.
at coon, v.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 111: There was a corn-fed hissy in a plush bonnet.
at cornfed, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 57: They was just plain Mr. and Mrs. Mad. Both of ’em stall-fed.
at stall-fed, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 56: Ain’t it fierce what music does to persons.
at fierce, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 77: That’s what really gaffed me the worst!
at gaff, v.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 58: Ain’t it the gooey mess of heart-throbs when you come right down to it?
at gooey, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 135: Angus had some money saved up, and what should he do with bits of it now and then but grubstake old Snowstorm Hickey.
at grubstake, v.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 35: Wilfred went pasty, indeed, thinking his host was going to gun him.
at gun, v.2
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 135: A grouchy old hardshell with white hair.
at hard-shell, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 87: A regular hell-cat – what he is!
at hell-cat (n.) under hell, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 21: I left these two lady highbinders and went on into the retail side of the Family Liquor Store.
at highbinder, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 6: What did Wilfred Lennox, the hobo poet, have to do with Mr. Ben Sutton?
at hobo, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 162: If you hurt that hotel anything like twenty-three hundred dollars’ worth, it must be an interesting sight.
at hurt, v.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 340: That white man still have smallpox to give all Injins he travel to.
at Injun, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 123: The old one had a scar [...] It’s where his old man laid into him once, when he was a kid.
at lay into, v.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 88: On the level, ain’t he the real Peruvian doughnuts?
at real jam (n.) under jam, n.2
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 348: He puts it up with the press agent of this big hotel to have the poor things sleep up on the roof [...] so them jay New York newspapers would fall for it and print articles about these hardy sons of the forest.
at jay, adj.2
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 59: He [...] sells these jitney pianos and phonographs and truck like that.
at jitney, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 50: My lands! Ain’t I the cynical old Kate!
at my land! (excl.) under land, n.1
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