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[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 13 Aug. 5/1: ‘C-c-even. Come eleven!’ ‘ Big Dick from Boston!’ .
at big dick (n.) under big, adj.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 24 Oct. 2/2: he is a better rustler than any competitior. More strict attention to business; longer hours at work.
at rustler, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 5 Dec. 1/5: The couches, the tray, the pipes and more important than all, the ‘Rooster’ brand of opium, from which are raked and rolled and cooked the little pills placed in the pipe and handed to the goody-goody Americans.
at rooster brand, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 5 Dec. 1/5: The ‘hitters’ are wearing more flashy ties.
at hitter, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 17 Mar. 3/2: It was a gay crowd that stepped from their chartered car on the peanut roaster route.
at peanut roaster (n.) under peanut, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 5 Dec. 1/5: The ‘pigtails’ of China.
at pigtail, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Review (AZ) 22 Aug. 3/2: Hart, the Kentucky heavyweight ‘mitt pusher,’ now looms up as a leading candidate for the championship.
at mitt-pusher (n.) under mitt, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 29 Aug. 2/3: [headline] Three Jail Birds Fly the Coop.
at fly the coop (v.) under coop, n.1
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 15 June 4/4: He ate on the pie card long enough to think out a better scheme.
at pie-card (n.) under pie, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 13 may 5/5: He was a hummer and could talk on the superiority of a Dairy Lunch meal with the glibness of a book agent.
at hummer, n.1
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 13 may 5/5: Several of them have thus far failed to land positions and are hurting for a pie card.
at pie-card (n.) under pie, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. 6 Feb. 3/2: The new elected members of the republican congressional committee [...] have had a regular monkey and parrot time of it as usual.
at parrot and monkey time, n.
[US] Bisbee Daily Review (AZ) 20 Dec. 4/3: Knuckledusters themselves do not hang about saloons or have a bunch of ham and eggers in red sweaters and rah rah caps, flocking at their heels.
at ham-and-egger (n.) under ham, n.1
[US] Bisbee Daily Review (AZ) 20 Dec. 4/3: Knuckledusters themselves do not hang about saloons or have a bunch of ham and eggers in red sweaters and rah rah caps, flocking at their heels.
at knuckleduster, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 12 Dec. 4/5: Walter yells in strident tones: ‘Cowmeat for a gummer’.
at gummer, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 26 Nov. 15/5: You bald-headed old peckerwood!
at peckerwood, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 26 Nov. 15/5: Ef there’s any more of you [...] wants to pay me what you owe me [...] just walk up here an’ plunk down.
at plunk down (v.) under plunk, v.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 30 May 8/6: Our army and naval officers are as fine a set of gentlemen as the world ever saw, and the majority of them are made in a few years from the rough-head, red-necked raw material.
at redneck, adj.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 23 Jan. 8/2: [advt] Decidely Dictionary Daffy. Bisbee has apparently gone ‘dictionary daffy’ [...] to secure copies of the beautiful $4.00 Webster’s New Illustrated Dictionary.
at daffy, adj.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 10 May 6/2: Along the big eats, will be much laughing juice.
at laughing soup (n.) under laughing, adj.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 5 July 1/5: Old Probabilities was in league with District. He sent a heavy shower shortly before sunrise which laid the dust and cooled the air.
at Old Probabilities (n.) under old, adj.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 28 Nov. 4/1: It may have been [...] like a certain bench-legged fice: ‘When he didn’t wag it, why, the tail wagged him’.
at bench-legged (adj.) under bench, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 26 Aug. 6: Many ‘Dope Heads’ Visit City Physician [...] in Effort to Secure ‘Hop’.
at dopehead (n.) under dope, n.1
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 26 Aug. 6: These hopheads [...] will do anything [...] to get money to buy opium, morphine, ‘snow flakes’ and similar drugs.
at snowflake, n.2
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 25 Sept. 5/2: Come to our ‘Ragpickers’ Hop’ [and] shake a wicked hoof and sing.
at shake a wicked leg (v.) under shake, v.
[US] Bisbee Dly Review (AZ) 20 Dec. 8/6: The Copuntry Boob hit on a big idea [...] but the Wise guys disposed of him.
at country boob (n.) under country, adj.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 10 Dec. 3/4: I have been doing this Japanese wrestling [...] they have taught me three new throws that are perfect corkers.
at corker, n.2
[US] letter dated 1904 in Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 10 Dec. 3/4: By the time I get to five o’clock in the afternoon I will be feeling like a stewed owl.
at feel like a (fresh-)boiled owl (v.) under feel, v.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 1 Jan. 5/2: The oldest inhabitants of Broadway and adjacent streets in the ‘roaring forties’ admitted [...] it was the most successful New Year’s eve they could remember.
at Roaring Forties, n.
[US] Bisbee Dly Rev. (AZ) 9 Nov. 4/4: Jimmy Smith gave Eddie Collins an earful of razzberry.
at give someone the raspberry (v.) under raspberry, n.
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