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The Leather Pushers choose

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[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 24: The Kid’s ace was his left hook.
at ace, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 8: Now, boys and girls, the next ex-e-bition bout of the evenin’ is Kid Roberts [...] vs. Battlin’ Fate.
at boys and girls, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 41: There’s only one way we can absorb enough pennies [...] and that’s for you to bounce some boloney at this fight club.
at baloney, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 55: She’s a beaucoup looker.
at beaucoup, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 8: One of them bimbos which hurls a mean hammer.
at bimbo, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 234: A two column blah of romantical hooch about him bein’ a dashin’ cowboy.
at blah, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 231: No doubt she expected to see some cauliflowered-eared, red-faced, snaggle-toothed, hairy cave man.
at cave-man, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 174: I’ll go to the cleaners for sixty thousand men if kid Roberts don’t ash home in front.
at go to the cleaners (v.) under cleaners, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 11: He played with the Allies as a dizzy aviator.
at dizzy, adj.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 35: A flash at the dope-book on any sport [...] will show you what happens then!
at dope book (n.) under dope, n.3
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 43: Do you fade me?
at fade, v.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 196: The minute he flashed me he dragged me into a little room.
at flash, v.3
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 174: Would I be liable to lay down to the Frog with a crack at the world’s title in sight?
at Frog, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 34: The guy with the glass jaw or the weak muscled stomach.
at glass jaw, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 40: I ain’t tryin’ to jimmy into your most intimate affairs.
at jimmy, v.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 17: ‘A lulu, hey?’ whispered Dummy in my ear.
at lulu, n.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 18: I wouldn’t be surprised if the muss went the limit.
at muss, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 286: The Kid’s face is a movie.
at picture, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 289: Sweet Mamma – you should of seen Enright’s face!
at sweet mama! (excl.) under sweet, adj.1
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 6: This one to-night is only a stall for the real sugar, get me? Loughlin’s gonna be under wraps all the way.
at under wraps, adv.
[US] H.C. Witwer Leather Pushers 14: That baby packed a nasty wallop somewheres.
at pack a wallop (v.) under wallop, n.1
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