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[US] Coshocton (OH) Trib. 15 Mar. [headline] Kid Gleason’s goofs defeated the regulars.
at goof, n.1
[US] 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
[US] Coshocton Trib. (OH) 23 Jan. 2/3: My neighbor Johnson plays the flute [...] He cannot play it worth a hoot.
at hoot, n.2
[US] Coshocton (OH) Trib. 23 Jan. 2/3: Nowadays we all believe in ashooting laws at every ‘jay.’.
at jay, n.1
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] Coshocton Trib. (OH) 8 Nov. 2/3: ‘I’m saying goodbye to a thousand smackeroos’.
at smackeroos, n.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
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