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The Web and the Rock choose

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[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 57: Git dat kid out of here or I’ll put yuh in the cooler as sure as hell.
at sure as hell under sure as..., phr.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 54: D’yuh think I’m a simp to be gittin’ yuh protection and keepin’ the bulls from runnin’ yuh in.
at bull, n.5
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 53: Aw, shut up! Yuh make me sick with dat line of bull.
at line of bull (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 64: Yuh tell ’em yuh don’t know anything about me, see? Give ’em a bum steer.
at bum steer (n.) under bum, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 52: In appearance he is a typical ‘cadet,’ flashily dressed.
at cadet, n.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 61: I went to a doc about a month ago. He told me I had the ‘con’ and had it bad.
at con, n.2
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 57: Git dat kid out of here or I’ll put yuh in the cooler as sure as hell.
at cooler, n.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 62: They got me and this time I went to the coop fur five years.
at coop, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 67: What did yuh croak him for?
at croak, v.2
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 58: There, there, Kid, cut the cryin’.
at cut, v.4
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 57: But yuh wouldn’t have me pinched, would yuh, Steve? Yuh wouldn’t do me dirt like that?
at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 53: Who said I was chasin’ any dolls?
at doll, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 56: A fine mother you are and dis is a swell dump to bring up a family in.
at dump, n.3
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 58: If yuh bother this goil again I’ll fix yuh and fix yuh right. D’yuh get me?
at fix, v.1
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 57: I’ll have yuh pinched and sent to the Island.
at Island, the, n.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 63: What’s it to you?
at what’s it to you?, phr.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 58: Git outa here, yuh lousy skunk, and stay out!
at lousy, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 54: I ain’t got a nick.
at nick, n.4
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 63: Yuh swear yuh won’t squeal on me?
at squeal (on), v.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 55: Yuh’re half drunk now. And yuh been hittin’ the pipe too; I kin tell by the way your eyes look.
at hit the pipe (v.) under pipe, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 62: Gee, I thought I was in bad, but yuh got me skinned to death.
at skinned, adj.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 58: Yuh think yuh’re some smart, dontcha, buttin’ in dis way on a guy?
at smart, n.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 68: I’m sick of listenin’ to that sob stuff.
at sob stuff (n.) under sob, n.1
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 67: I didn’t think he’d be fool enough to stick around here.
at stick around (v.) under stick, v.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 60: I’ve tried that job thing. I’ve looked fur decent work.
at thing, n.
[US] E. O’Neill The Web in Ten ‘Lost’ Plays (1995) 52: Yuh give me the willies standin’ there like a ghost.
at willies, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Web and the Rock 121: The nigger begins to argue with him [...] an’ to give him some back-talk.
at back-talk, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Web and the Rock 39: I’m not takin’ any backwash from him.
at backwash (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] T. Wolfe Web and the Rock 458: He laughed like a madman. ‘That’s big talk, woman!’.
at big talk, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Web and the Rock 401: Taking from her purse a wad of thousand-dollar bills, ‘big enough,’ said Mrs. Jack, ‘to choke a horse’.
at big enough to choke a bull (adj.) under big, adj.
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