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[US] Advocate (Topeka, KS) 5 Sept. 12/3: Lotteries, jonts and gambling houses, bawdy houses and boodling were first born [...] in the state of Kansas.
at boodle, v.1
[US] Advocate (Topeka, KS) 28 Mar. 3/2: He laughed as does the policeman who has ‘got the deadwood’ on some poor wretch.
at have the deadwood on (v.) under deadwood, n.
[US] Advocate (Topeka, KS) 21 Feb. 2/3: I’ll be blamed if I can believe town people are that way everywheres.
at everywheres, n.
[US] Advocate (Topeka, KS) 2 Jan. 3/1: ‘Humph, ’ she snarled, ‘be you back?’ And then the conventional saw of the bad penny tangled itself hopelessly [...] and she lapsed into the usual [...] imbecility.
at bad penny (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] Advocate (Topeka, KS) 7 Aug. 8/1: John Waller has a reputation in Kansas of a shystering politician and an all-round deadbeat.
at deadbeat, n.
[US] Advocate (Topeka, KS) 7 Aug. 8/1: John Waller has a reputation in Kansas of a shystering politician and an all-round deadbeat.
at shystering, adj.
[US] Advocate (Topeka, KS) 30 Dec. 15/1: Ye jest ought to see how chirked up the jedge is!
at chirk (up), v.
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