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The Great Gatsby choose

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[US] F.S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby 154: He was probably bumming his way home.
at bum, v.3
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby 127: The thing to do is to forget about the heat [...] You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.
at crab, v.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby 42: We had over twelve hundred dollars when we started, but we got gypped out of it all in two days.
at gyp, v.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby 59: I’m Gatsby, he said [...] I was looking at an elegant young roughneck.
at roughneck, n.
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