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[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 4: One Punch McTague would be a better moniker for this banana, as that’s all he lasted!
at banana, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 83: But Shylock took his battler around through the sticks crackin’ the usual pushovers and turned two deaf ears to Antonio’s pleas for a match.
at battler (n.) under battle, v.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 85: He’s got to take off a lot of weight on the account of makin’ that dumb-bell agreement with Shylock.
at dumb-bell, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 13: Ain’t one of them dumbbells game enough to be the goat and take Kate for their bitter half.
at better half, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 48: This big blah falls for it and both hands drops to the sides of his tights.
at blah, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 68: The best jazz band in the country blowed wicked saxophones for the boys and girls, wine flowed like Niagara and what with one thing and another, the affair was a wow from many standpoints.
at blow, v.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 57: As he was the boss scrapper next to the lately Duncan, why he was acknowledged champion of the world.
at boss, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 22–3: I swang around on this dumb-bell prepared to see would he bounce, when the girl sized up the situation at the glance and prevented blood-shed by givin’ him the air.
at bounce, v.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 47: I punched him off, and was breezin’ home in front when, in some way, my chin got stuck on the end of a left hook.
at breeze, v.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 30: Goin’ down to the dock she pulls a Brodie into the drink, thusly endin’ all.
at pull a Brodie (v.) under brodie, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 41: I was just gettin’ him to where he can’t stomp a brutal step!
at brutal, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 4: Dempsey would be a set-up for me on account of him bein’ nothin’ but a big over-rated bum which had never been in a real fight.
at bum, n.3
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 5: A relative of mine, i.e., Uncle Angus, had bumped off at his country home on Amsterdam Avenue, New York, and left me his business.
at bump (off), v.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 58: This busted up the party and the shriekin’ Mac is carried away, one of the first and most famous victims of the D.T.’s.
at bust up, v.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 3: The semifinal brought together a couple more twenty-eight carat bums in ‘Kid’ Edwards and ‘One Round’ McTague.
at twenty-four carat, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 84: I can go in weighin’ four ounces and still knock your cheese champ for a trip!
at cheese, the, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 63: ‘Mr. Windsor-Blenheim,’ she says, plenty chilly, ‘is this meant to be rude?’.
at chilly, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 84: Shylock thinks matters over for a minute and he sees a chance to send his old enemy, Battlin’ Antonio, to the cleaner’s.
at take to the cleaners (v.) under cleaners, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 57: He feels certain that he can take Cyclone Duncan in a fifteen round fight, whereas if he cooks him at his own house he will only get the chair.
at cook, v.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 73: In the heart-broken state I’m in, I couldn’t punch my way out of a paper bag!
at couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag under couldn’t..., phr.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 12: Blanche is a cutey, which stops traffic every time she goes downtown for a walk, but this Kate is a tough baby and swings a mean tongue.
at cutie, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 21: ‘Don’t let this guy bother you, kid,’ whispers one of ’em, whilst bandagin’ my hands which has suddenly fell a victim to St. Vitus’ dance.
at St Vitus’s dance, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 57: Well, naturally enough, they was a great how de do about the thing the next mornin’.
at how-do-you-do, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 57: She wakes up Mac and tells him he’s got to do the dirty work. K. O. Macbeth says nothin’ stirrin’!
at nothing doing, phr.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 71: The dope the old friar give her was wore off Juliet, and she opens her eyes.
at dope, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 30: Goin’ down to the dock she pulls a Brodie into the drink, thusly endin’ all.
at drink, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 84: So’s the damsel’s old man won’t run him off the porch when he gets out there, says Bassanio, he’s got to have three thousand ducats.
at ducat, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 36: I’ll say that’s a dude of a label, hey?
at dude, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 56: K.O. Macbeth’s wife tunes in on WXYZ, begins shakin’ a nasty shoulder and fin’ly vamps the champ into stayin’ over the night at the challenger’s dump.
at dump, n.3
[US] H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 68: When this kid found out that the Capulet racket was a mask affair, him and a couple of pals named Benvolio and Mercutio, rents costumes and eases into the house without nobody tumblin’ to who they was.
at ease, v.2
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