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[US] R. Service ‘Montreal Maree’ in Songs of a Sun Lover (1955) 73: Fortified with barbwire hooch.
at barbed wire, n.1
[US] R. Service ‘Montreal Maree’ in Songs of a Sun Lover (1955) 73: He was batty for that babe.
at batty, adj.1
[US] R. Service ‘Yellow’ in Songs of a Sun Lover (1955) 31: I should have bawled the bastard out: / A yellow dog he slew; / But worse, he proved beyond a doubt / That – I was yellow too.
at bawl out, v.1
[US] R. Service ‘Montreal Maree’ in Songs of a Sun Lover (1955) 72: A satellite of Soapy Smith, a capper and a shill, / A slimy tribute-taker from the Ladies on the Loose.
at capper, n.1
[US] R. Service ‘Montreal Maree’ in Songs of a Sun Lover (1955) 73: Serene and still she spoke to Bill like he was so much dirt.
at dirt, n.
[US] R. Service ‘The Parson’s Son’ in Songs of a Sun Lover (1955) 13: A broken wreck with a craze for ‘hooch’, and never a cent to my name.
at hooch, n.1
[US] R. Service ‘Montreal Maree’ in Songs of a Sun Lover (1955) 73: Now though I zippered up my mug somehow the story spread / That I was playin’ poker and my banker was Maree.
at zip one’s lip, v.
[US] R. Service ‘No Neck-Tie Party’ Songs of a Sun Lover [title].
at necktie party (n.) under necktie, n.
[US] R. Service ‘Montreal Maree’ in Songs of a Sun Lover (1955) 73: ‘I’ll plug that piker full of lead,’ exploded Windy Bill.
at piker, n.
[US] R. Service ‘The Parson’s Song’ in Songs of a Sun Lover (1955) 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 queer, adj.
[US] R. Service ‘Montreal Maree’ in Songs of a Sun Lover (1955) 72: But of straight-shootin’ Dawson dames, Maree was rated queen.
at straight shooter, n.1
[US] R. Service ‘No Sourdough’ in Songs of a Sun Lover (1955) 66: To be a bony feed Sourdough / You must, by Yukon Law, / Have killed a moose, [...] And bunked up with a squaw.
at squaw, n.
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