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[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 222: I heard one of them,—a Boston beaut—confide in a friend.
at beaut, n.1
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 32: What the blankety blank do they want to go and soften ’emselves up with girls for.
at blankety-blank, phr.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 65: I cussed and blanked ’em.
at blank, v.1
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 252: I’ve heard that nowadays to talk way down in their boots, like men, was just the cheese.
at cheese, the, n.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 64: I got up on the forward wheels [...] when—Christopher Hemlock! Two coppers grinning like a pair of bloomin’ hyenas jumped forward.
at Christopher Columbus!, excl.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 1: Even the ‘greasy grinds’ hardly felt it in their hearts to begin the evening’s cram.
at cram, n.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 92: All those weeks of cramming.
at cramming, n.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 155: He is dead crushed on that Louise Palfrey.
at crushed on, adj.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 160: You’re a daisy athlete, and no mistake!
at daisy, adj.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 46: You darks are just as safe under a democratic regime as a republican.
at dark, n.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 137: Had he not shown a little sand [...] where would they all have been today? ‘Why, in Davy Jones’s locker,’ says Little Jack.
at Davy Jones’s locker, n.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns Preface: If you describe the life of the ‘rowdy element,’ you may offend the ‘digs’.
at dig, n.2
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 56: If that rubber elastic breaks he’s dished!
at dished, adj.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 87: Shell we bounce him, sir? [...] Shell we do ’im up as he ’d oughter be did up fer a tryin’ fer ter bust de meetin’?
at do up, v.1
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 9: He was a hummer, and put down in one evening [...] five whiskey cocktails, six beers, three Manhattans, and a bottle of fizz.
at put down, v.1
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 253: That Gower girl, — she’s thrown him down.
at throw down, v.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 152: Our dandy team played a logy, tired sort of game, as if each man had been given knock-out drops.
at knockout drops, n.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 145: They opened a bot., and got one or two other Elis in with them.
at Eli, n.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 159: ‘Gee Whitaker!’ I said.
at gee whillikins!, excl.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 253: He’s lovesick, you know, all girled up. It’s our duty to get him out of it.
at girled up, adj.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 39: ‘Gosh all hemlock!’ cried the farmer.
at gosh all hemlock! (excl.) under gosh, n.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 95: I have never danced. I’ve sat out and yawned ‘graveyards’ and looked grouchy. [Ibid.] 182: They yawned graveyards at us, — and made us tired.
at yawn graveyards, v.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 95: She had asked him if he imagined he was carrying a foot-ball through a Princeton rush line [...] His prancing step, she intimated, was perhaps better adapted to the ‘gridiron’ than the drawing-room floor.
at gridiron, n.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 1: Even the ‘greasy grinds’ hardly felt it in their hearts to begin the evening’s cram.
at grind, n.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 76: The good Deacon for a month had assumed the usual ‘grouch’ of a hard-working ‘dig.’ He was nervous, peevish, irritable, and unhappy.
at grouch, n.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 95: I have never danced. I’ve sat out and yawned ‘graveyards’ and looked grouchy. [Ibid.] 101: Plain Elizabeth Smith [...] wanders about the yard with her grouchy brother.
at grouchy, adj.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 84: It’s run entirely by Dwight Hall heelers.
at heeler, n.
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 262: It’s because you are so hipped on a girl that you think you see one behind every bush!
at hipped, adj.2
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 139: Old Sleuth Davidson [...] never was known to lose his head on any occasion [...] Well, Sleuth Davidson went off the hooks, at last, somewhat in this fashion, according to Little Jack Horner.
at off the hook(s) under hook, n.1
[US] J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 273: Paige said it was time to ‘horse to likker’ (referring to the Benedictine).
at horse (it) (v.) under horse, v.
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