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[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 54: Many ‘lemon pelters’ come out to see Timmie.
at lemon, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 60: (TAD’s Impressions By Reading Account Of Walcott’s Victory Over Choynski) Oh mommer.
at oh mamma!, excl.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 88: Lewis F. Byington was in line ‘with bells’.
at with bells on under bell, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 132: I looked at him again and asked him if he hadn’t been ‘taking a blow’.
at blow, n.3
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 126: Four more players get the ‘rush’.
at bum’s rush, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 29: I got tired and tried to hold on, but I couldn’t find anything. Gee whiz; I thought it was curtains.
at curtains, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 30: (A Page Of Pests) The ‘happy thought’ who imagines all the fairies are daffy on him.
at fairy, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 46: Hophead Hank has a dream.
at hophead, adj.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 63: In the same act there is a ‘yen she’ joint and a bevy of ‘hopheads’ pike out into the open air to close in on enough tin to get another long draw.
at hophead, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 110: Sam Hildreth casting a sorrowful glance at Owensbora who cost him ‘Five Hun’.
at hun, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 50: Dan Honig after a jolly.
at jolly, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 65: When I got on board the first thing I heard was the little pongo band playing ‘More Work For The Undertaker’.
at pongo, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 65: (Some Pests You Will Meet In Your Travels) And the fellow who insists on telling you these ‘porky’ dialect stories.
at porky, adj.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 70: (Some Pests You Will Meet In Your Travels) The pest with the ‘cheap rope’ who smokes it on the dummy and blows it your way.
at rope, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 71: (The Gin Bums’ Crusade) And raid the joint of a poor Scandahoovian.
at Scandahoovian, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 63: In the same act there is a ‘yen she’ joint and a bevy of ‘hopheads’ pike out into the open air to close in on enough tin to get another long draw.
at yen-shee, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 74: Say boy. Kindly ast de mag ta remove de skypiece.
at sky-piece (n.) under sky, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 75: Cap’n Bill slipped the ‘bull con’ for the gilts.
at slip, v.2
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 82: They must have this trite aphorism indelibly written on their think tanks.
at think-tank (n.) under think, v.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 14: Manager Hertz went up in the air in a second.
at go up in the air (v.) under air, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 16: Why the old turk wouldn’t have had a bean if I let half the creditors in.
at bean, n.1
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 21: Every bloke had to bring his ‘bundle’ wid him, an’ if he couldn’t find one Chuck had a couple o’ ‘brums’ on de side that was widout a partner.
at brum, n.2
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 58: Johnny Wise Starts A Little ‘Monkey Doodles’ At The Seaside.
at monkey business, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 23: That noble butterinsky who hangs around the billiard table and tells you what to do.
at buttinski, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 69: Mr J Wise Gives Archie The ‘Rinky Dink’.
at rinky dink, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 103: (Doesn’t It Seem Strange) That a big burly football player will roll around in the mud and have his ‘feeder’ wiped out with a dirty sponge.
at feeder, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 37: Here comes a couple o dem wise flusies.
at floozy, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 45: Joe Hip/For Congress/Son of old man Hip.
at joe hep, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 46: {Man calling out order in restaurant kitchen:} How’s them hots comin.
at hot, n.
[US] T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 50: He pulled off a ball in New York a little while ago and oney [sic] the big guys dere was ‘jerry’ to it.
at jerry, adj.2
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