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[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 110: I’ll show them boobs somethin’ before I take the air.
at take the air (v.) under air, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 268: I wish I had a line of patter like that! Amazin’ and awesome accuracy!
at awesome, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 304: ‘Somebody put the bee on us!’ howls Honest Dan, wringin’ his hands.
at put the bee on (v.) under bee, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 64: All the big leaguers own their own tourin’ cars.
at big-leaguer, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 126: You could see she was a big-timer.
at big-timer (n.) under big time, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 332: A couple of those would put the company on the blink, and I lose a ten-year contract at ample money a year.
at on the blink (adj.) under blink, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 81: I bet that boob mechanic left that in there.
at boob, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 124: I gotta train for this guy, or he’s liable to bounce me.
at bounce, v.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 294: He’d be satisfied to let it go at half killin’ ’em both and makin’ a bum out of the Temple of the Inner Star.
at make a bum of (v.) under bum, n.3
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 362: I [...] gave him the bum’s rush out of the room.
at bum’s rush, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 33: He’sa wan greata big what you call bunk! He’sa no good! He can’t act, he can do nothing.
at bunk, n.3
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 100: Any burg that’s got a couple of sure enough eighteen-carat boobs in it, known to the trade as suckers, has got a chance.
at eighteen-carat, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 138: It braced him like a charge of hop.
at charge, n.2
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 173: He must have had rheumatism or a pair of charley horses.
at charley horse, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 225: He looks over and sees Van Ness in a clinch with Miss Vincent.
at clinch, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 238: Why in the Hail Columbia don’t you bust out and giggle now and then, hey?
at hail Columbia, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 64: I never heard of Columbus gettin’ pinched for speedin’ and Shakespeare never had no trouble with blowouts. Yet all them birds was looked on as the loud crash in their time.
at crash, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 356: I got a man here that’s liable to croak any minute – this ain’t no time for comedy!
at croak, v.2
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 186: Why don’t you can that four-flush thing?
at four-flush, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 273: Take it from me, that bird is there forty ways.
at forty ways from the jack (adv.) under forty, adj.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 261: We even garnish each loaf with a generous gob of Gazoopis.
at gob, n.2
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 190: I knowed if Eddie got a chance to harpoon Joe with Gladys, he’d do that thing.
at harpoon, v.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 138: It braced him like a charge of hop.
at hop, n.3
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 289: He was a Saturday night ale-hound.
at -hound, sfx
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 235: Tony gathers up his junk and [...] beats it.
at junk, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 168: If he had discovered anything, he could actually do even half way decent, he would have got away with murder.
at get away with murder (v.) under murder, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 235: Van Ness puts the gun and the nitro in Tony’s pocket.
at nitro, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 186: The Kid grunts and toss away the pill.
at pill, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 54: I’m not goin’ to stop anywheres for no powders.
at powder, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Kid Scanlon 80: The prize boob of the country is waterin’ the pavement around his real estate.
at prize, adj.
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