1921 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 8 Mar. 2/3: If I am pale around the gills the fact I won’t admit.at white about/around/in/round the gills (adj.) under gills, n.1
1921 Coshocton Trib. (OH) 23 Jan. 2/3: My neighbor Johnson plays the flute [...] He cannot play it worth a hoot.at hoot, n.2
1921 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 23 Jan. 2/3: Nowadays we all believe in ashooting laws at every ‘jay.’.at jay, n.1
1921 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 8 Mar. 2/3: The coin we toiled so hard to get [...] our Uncle Samuel will get.at Uncle Sam, n.1
1927 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 3 May n.p.: By rep. V.E. Cramer, Toledo, prohibiting sale in Ohio of Mexican weed known as marijuana and adding it to list of banned drugs.at weed, n.1
1936 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 18 May 6/1: In a slang way out in Ohio pixillation meant a bit balmy. Silly Tom was pixillated and so was Ida Strump, who [...] came to town in her bare feet.at pixillated, adj.
1939 Coshocton Trib. (OH) 8 Nov. 2/3: ‘I’m saying goodbye to a thousand smackeroos’.at smackeroos, n.
1944 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 13 Feb. 9/1: Every good athlete ‘has something on the ball’, but the layman is never certain just what he has on which ball.at something on the ball (n.) under ball, n.1
1944 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 13 Feb. 9/1: The boxer who is bought off in a crooked fight takes a ‘powder’ or ‘dive.’.at take a powder (v.) under powder, n.2
1944 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 13 Feb. 9/1: Every good athlete ‘has something on the ball’, but the layman is never certain just what he has on which ball.at something on the ball (n.) under something, n.
1945 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 1 Sept. [pic. caption] n.p.: In the best Japanese tradition, a prisoner of war on Guam greets Lt. Harold F. Gannon of Brooklyn, commandant of the camp, with a so-humble bend from the waist, accompanied, no doubt, by the traditional hiss of politely indrawn breath. This prisoner is the ‘honcho,’ or group headman, in the POW stockade.at honcho, n.
1946 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 5 June 8: As far as Burton was concerned, everything was fouled up like a Chinese fire drill as Hogan finished with his plus 51 to lead Lloyd Mangrum.at Chinese fire drill (n.) under Chinese, adj.
1954 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 2 Dec. 8/6: ‘I will beat this Giambra,’ he insists, ‘and prove Italy still produces fine fighters.’ Its hard to see how he can be proved wrong. Joey is a goombah, too!at goombah, n.
1966 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 15 Mar. 4/4–5: Sometimes our parents have a cow about our slang, but heck, life would be flaky without it. Don’t you think?at have a (hairy) cow (v.) under cow, n.1
1966 Coshocton (OH) Trib. 15 Mar. 4/4–5: Sometimes our parents have a cow about our slang, but heck, life would be flaky without it. Don’t you think?at flaky, adj.
1966 Coshocton Trib. (OH) 15 Mar. 4/4: Dear Helen: I thought you might like to hear one of the slang-things we read in your column has made it big at our school, but in a different way. You said ‘Hang a Roscoe’ or ‘Hang a Louie’ was ‘turn to the right’ or ‘left’ while you’re driving, as in ‘Hang a Roscoe at the clash’ (intersection).at hang a ralph (v.) under hang, v.7
1966 Coshocton Trib. (OH) 15 Mar. 4/4: Dear Helen: I thought you might like to hear one of the slang-things we read in your column has made it big at our school, but in a different way. You said ‘Hang a Roscoe’ or ‘Hang a Louie’ was ‘turn to the right’ or ‘left’ while you’re driving, as in ‘Hang a Roscoe at the clash’ (intersection).at hang a louie (v.) under louie, n.2