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[US] J.H. Browne Four Years in Secessia 288: ‘Running a Mick’ was to get an Irishman drunk; induce him to enlist for two or three hundred dollars; obtain five times that sum from a citizen desirous of procuring a substitute.
at mick, n.1
[US] J.H. Browne Four Years in Secessia 288: ‘Coming the kink’ was to steal a negro from the country, and dispose of him in town .
at come the kink (v.) under kink, n.1
[US] J.H. Browne Four Years in Secessia 194: Its classic communities would turn their attention from imbibing Minié rifle whisky [DA].
at Minié rifle, n.
[US] J.H. Browne Four Years in Secessia 340: The Muggers, like most bullies and ruffians, manifested a fine discrimination, respecting the party they attacked, selecting those they thought they could rob with little resistance and entire impunity .
at mugger, n.1
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