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[US] Catholic World Aug. 687: My lord, will you plase to send for the baste, and if it’s a horse, let me be swung as high as Gildheroy.
at higher than Gilderoy’s kite, adj.
[US] Catholic World 36 552: To ‘doss,’ that is, sleep in a bed [...] would cost threepence. It could not be thought of. He must doss out in some one of the many makeshifts that a kind Providence and the wholesale grocers furnish for the homeless in the shape of empty sugar-hogsheads.
at doss out (v.) under doss, v.
[US] Catholic World XLIV 706: [...] the male sex as found in the land of hidden whiskey-stills and moonlighters.
at moonlighter, n.
[US] Catholic World Sept. 793: Lord-a-massy! dem niggars you all got ain’t gwine to lemme in.
at lor-a-massy/-mussy!, excl.
[US] Catholic World 386: The increasing aggressiveness of Western heroines is again quite apparent in a new technicolor oat-opera, The Redhead from Wyoming.
at oat opera (n.) under oat, n.1
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