1876 Butte (MT) Miner 21 Nov. 1/4: You are charged with assault and battery [...] having belted a man over the head.at belt, v.
1876 Butte (MT) Miner 8 June 1/3: I was bound to make a scratch, being down to my seams, as it were, with the hashman and the landlady.at hash-man (n.) under hash, n.1
1876 Butte (MT) Miner 8 June 1/3: I found out in time and ‘knocked off’ [...] more than half my usual amount of stimulants.at knock off, v.
1876 Butte (MT) Miner 8 June 1/3: P’raps you don’t call to mind the night when you and me snatched a fifteen-dollar sleeper when a drunk didn’t savy enough to pick up a split on a bet o’ thirty.at savvy, v.
1876 Butte (MT) Miner 8 June 1/3: I was bound to make a scratch, being down to my seams, as it were, with the hashman and the landlady.at make a scratch (v.) under scratch, n.3
1876 Butte (MT) Miner 8 June 1/3: I was bound to make a scratch, being down to my seams, as it were, with the hashman and the landlady.at down to one’s seams under seam, n.
1876 Butte (MT) Miner 8 June 1/3: P’raps you don’t call to mind the night when you and me snatched a fifteen-dollar sleeper when a drunk didn’t savy enough to pick up a split on a bet o’ thirty. [...] P’raps you and Jake Small ain’t snacks in ropin’ in snoozers?at sleeper, n.
1876 Butte (MT) Miner 8 June 1/3: P’raps you don’t call to mind the night when you and me snatched a fifteen-dollar sleeper when a drunk didn’t savy enough to pick up a split on a bet o’ thirty. [...] P’raps you and Jake Small ain’t snacks in ropin’ in snoozers?at snack, n.1
1880 Butte Miner (MT) 27 July 3/3: Phillipsburgers supposing they had a soft thing came to Butte in full force [...] Sporting Butteites also imagined they had a soft thing.at soft thing, n.
1881 Butte (MT) Daily Miner 14 Apr. 1/3: ‘Blizzard’ [...] There has been extensive use of the word in Pennsylvania for many years [...] A drink of any intoxicant, generally applied to whisky. Synonymous with the slang ‘a slug,’ ‘a smile,’ ‘a jigger,’ ‘a bumper.’ Example: ‘Let’s take a blizzard.’.at blizzard, n.1
1881 Butte (MT) Daily Miner 14 Apr. 1/3: ‘Blizzard’ [...] There has been extensive use of the word in Pennsylvania for many years [...] A drink of any intoxicant, generally applied to whisky. Synonymous with the slang ‘a slug,’ ‘a smile,’ ‘a jigger,’ ‘a bumper.’ Example: ‘Let’s take a blizzard.’.at jigger, n.3
1881 Butte (MT) Daily Miner 14 Apr. 1/3: ‘Blizzard’ [...] There has been extensive use of the word in Pennsylvania for many years [...] A drink of any intoxicant, generally applied to whisky. Synonymous with the slang ‘a slug,’ ‘a smile,’ ‘a jigger,’ ‘a bumper.’ Example: ‘Let’s take a blizzard.’.at slug, n.1
1885 Butte Miner (MT) 14 July 4/2: Ed Harris, a first-class pimp and strong-arm man.at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
1885 Butte Miner (MT) 14 July 4/2: Thomas Brown, a sure-thing man and alleged partner of the Galena woman who tried the panel racket.at panel game (n.) under panel, n.1
1885 Butte Miner (MT) 14 July 4/2: The city [...] has been infested by a gang of disreputable characters known as sure-thing men.at sure-thing, adj.