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Tenderloin choose

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[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 172: The Doc’s got bugs in his wig on this whore thing.
at have bugs (in the head) (v.) under bug, n.4
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 258: I still got that fifty-dol greenie.
at dol, n.
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 242: Ain’t it straight that you was showin’ him the elephant?
at elephant, n.
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 171: The Doc is fireproof. But there might be something doing with some of his gang.
at fireproof (adj.) under fire, n.
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 170: At suspiciously short intervals ‘visiting firemen,’ as out-of-town patrons were known, made the rounds of the houses.
at visiting fireman, n.
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 172: That’s more than you can say for some of the goo-goo sons-a-bitches he’s got working on it.
at goo-goo, n.4
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 242: Bending over she drew from her stocking a fifty-dollar bank note. [...] ‘My-my! Where’d you get the pretty greenie?’.
at greenie, n.2
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 35: A lota those hatchets don’t get more than two dollars a throw.
at hatchet, n.
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 170: Strange happenings were, indeed, of frequent occurence in the houses of the Tenderloin.
at house, n.1
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 275: Willie Frye and his side-kick may have put him on ice somewhere.
at on ice (adj.) under ice, n.1
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 170: The madams ain’t givin’ us the solid Muldoon on this thing.
at muldoon, n.
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 41: We don’t want some of our leading citizens coming down with the old ral.
at old rale (n.) under old, adj.
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 35: I’m going to run it like I want to, and no goddam pulpit-pounder is goin’ to tell me how.
at pulpit-banger (n.) under pulpit, n.
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 258: Tell him he can shoot the works.
at shoot the works (v.) under shoot, v.
[US] (con. 1890s) S.H. Adams Tenderloin 181: Where did you get that hat? / Where did you get that tile?
at tile, n.
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