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Rowdy Joe Lowe : Gambler with a Gun choose

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[US] Wichita Weekly Beacon in Rosa & Koop Rowdy Joe Lowe (1989) 75: A derringer was held against his commissary department and snapped.
at commissary department, n.
[US] (con. 1870s) Rosa & Koop Rowdy Joe Lowe 24: In defense of decency [...] these old-time scriveners delighted in colorful descriptions of the ‘ladies of the night.’ One finds such enlightening comments as ‘ceiling expert,’ ‘horizontal worker,’ ‘diddles in the dark’.
at horizontal worker (n.) under horizontal, adj.
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