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[Can] R. Service ‘New Year’s Eve’ in Songs of a Sourdough 25: When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay, / I hope that it won’t be hell-fire.
at big boss, the, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘New Year’s Eve’ in Songs of a Sourdough 43: It’s fine to have a blow-out in a fancy restaurant, / With terrapin and canvas-back and all the wine you want.
at blow-out, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘Grin’ in Songs of a Sourdough 28: If you’re up against a bruiser and you’re getting knocked about – Grin.
at bruiser, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Parson’s Son’ in Songs of a Sourdough 13: It put me queer, and for near a year I never drew sober breath, / Till I found myself in the bughouse ward with a claim staked out on death.
at bughouse, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘New Year’s Eve’ Songs of a Sourdough 75: Perhaps I can bum a little booze if the boys are feeling good.
at bum, v.3
[Can] R. Service ‘Quatrains’ Songs of a Sourdough 46: Heredity has got us in a cinch – (Consoling thought when you’ve been on a ‘bust’.).
at on a bust under bust, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Parson’s Son’ in Songs of a Sourdough 13: I was all caked in on a dance-hall jade, but she shook me in the end.
at caked, adj.1
[Can] R. Service ‘The Cremation of Sam McGee’ in Songs of a Sourdough 36: He turned to me, and, ‘Cap,’ says he, ‘I’ll cash in this trip, I guess.’.
at cash in, v.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Spell of the Yukon’ in Songs of a Sourdough 15: No! There’s the land. (Have you seen it?) / It’s the cussedest land that I know.
at cussed, adj.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Little Old Log Cabin’ in Songs of a Sourdough 57: When a man gits on his uppers in a hard-pan sort of town.
at hard-pan, adj.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Cremation of Sam McGrew’ in Songs of a Sourdough 39: Then I made a hike, for I didn’t like to hear him sizzle so.
at take a hike (v.) under hike, n.1
[Can] R. Service ‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew’ Songs of a Sourdough 30: And watching his luck was his light-o’-love, the lady that’s known as Lou.
at light o’ love, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew’ in Songs of a Sourdough 30: There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty and loaded for bear.
at loaded for bear (adj.) under loaded, adj.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Little Old Log Cabin’ in Songs of a Sourdough 57: An’ you’d fancy he’d been boozin’, he’s so locoed ’bout the feet.
at locoed (adj.) under loco/loca, adj.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew’ in Songs of a Sourdough 30: The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune.
at music box (n.) under music, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Spell of the Yukon’ Songs of a Sourdough 17: They’re making my money diminish; / I’m sick of the taste of champagne. / Thank God! when I’m skinned to a finish / I’ll pike to the Yukon again.
at pike, v.1
[Can] R. Service ‘The Low-Down White’ in Songs of a Sourdough 55: Where even the squalid Siwash now holds me a black disgrace.
at siwash, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Spell of the Yukon’ in Songs of a Sourdough 17: They’re making my money diminish; / I’m sick of the taste of champagne. / Thank God! when I’m skinned to a finish / I’ll pike to the Yukon again.
at skinned, adj.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Woman and the Angel’ in Songs of a Sourdough 71: The women simply adored him, his lips were like Cupid’s bow; / But he never ventured to use them – and so they voted him slow.
at slow, adj.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Parson’s Son’ in Songs of a Sourdough 12: We were just like a great big family, and every man had his squaw.
at squaw, n.
[Can] R. Service ‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew’ in Songs of a Sourdough 34: But I want to state, and my words are straight, and I’ll bet my poke they’re true.
at straight, adj.1
[Can] R. Service ‘Grin’ in Songs of a Sourdough 29: Sink to sleep at midnight, and although you’re feeling tough, – Yet grin.
at tough, adj.
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