1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 89: Cold enough to freeze the brass monkey.at cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, phr.
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 41: The batwings were flung out and the swamper sloshed a bucket of dirty water into the street.at batwing, n.
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 56: If you hadn’t been so boogery you couldn’t think straight, you’d know I wasn’t after you.at boogery, adj.
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 40: The ‘miserable bug of a man,’ determined to show everybody that he was more than Nita thought he was.at bug, n.1
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 126: Listen, you chowder-headed idiot.at chowder-headed (adj.) under chowder-head, n.
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 133: She could have gone lording it over everybody; but no, she throws it away for a coyote like Lowrie.at coyote, n.
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 53: Looked for a while like he might be the big gun on this range till one day he got himself dry-gulched. [Ibid.] 64: I’m thinking it’s too bad your dry-gulcher didn’t shoot straight.at dry gulch (v.) under dry, adj.1
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 46: She had mistaken him for a grub-line rider.at grub-liner (n.) under grub, n.2
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 53: Looked for a while like he might be the big gun on this range till one day he got himself dry-gulched.at big gun (n.) under gun, n.1
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 42: That tickles Cole. Makes him feel as big as all hell.at as hell (adv.) under hell, n.
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 124: A man next to Slade laughed. ‘Hogwash, Ira.’.at hogwash!, excl.
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 90: I don’t cotton to being called a liar, but if I call you one you’ll pull your iron.at iron, n.
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 53: It wouldn’t have happened if I had smoked him down.at smoke, v.2
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 65: You maybe in more of a squeeze than you know.at squeeze, n.1
1952 W.D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 41: The swamper sloshed a bucket of dirty water into the street.at swamper, n.