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[US] Butte (MT) Miner 21 Nov. 1/4: You are charged with assault and battery [...] having belted a man over the head.
at belt, v.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] Butte Miner (MT) 14 July 4/2: Johnny Murphy, a ‘sweater’ and sure-thing man.
at sweater, n.3
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