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Wild Bill Hickok choose

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[US] inscription on grave of Wild Bill Hickok in F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok (1926) 288: You gave him a ‘bully good send’; Bill was friend to you, pard, And you were his last, best friend.
at pard, n.
[US] (con. 1901) F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok 259: Asked by Mr. Freeman if the quotation were true, Calamity replied, ‘All blankety-blank lies’.
at blankety-blank, phr.
[US] F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok 284: Bill’s hand read ‘aces and eights’ – two pair, and since that day aces and eights have been known as ‘the dead man’s hand’ in the Western country.
at dead man’s hand (n.) under dead man, n.
[US] (con. 1860s) F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok 174: One scrivener has said [...] Abilene was running over and bursting out at the sides with the double-distilled essence of depravity.
at double-distilled (adj.) under double, adj.
[US] (con. 1870s) F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok 237: Let’s go down to the Gold Room an’ licker.
at liquor (up), v.
[US] (con. 1860s) F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok 118: Springfield at the time, we gather [...] was what would be called a ‘wide-open’ burg.
at wide-open, adj.
[US] (con. 1860s) F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok 45: M’Kandlas and his gang were border ruffians in the Kansas row, and, of course, they went with the rebs.
at Reb, n.
[US] (con. 1860s) F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok 45: Well, he got savage mad about it and swore he would have his revenge.
at savage, adj.
[US] (con. 1860s) F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok 201: He was ‘the mildest mannered man that ever scuttled ship or cut a throat’.
at scuttle, v.
[US] (con. 1860s) F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok 121: That made Bill shooting mad [...] he got up and looked Dave in the eye and said: ‘I don’t want to make a row in this house.’.
at shooting, adj.
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