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[US] Ade Artie (1963) 60: ‘I got a hen on.’ ‘What is it?’.
at hen is on, a, phr.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 78: Ain’t I told you that anybody I bring stands ace-high?
at stand ace-high (v.) under ace-high, adj.
[US] Ade Artie 49: She said she was an actorine.
at actorine, n.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 29: She tossed me in the air.
at toss someone in the air (v.) under air, n.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 21: She was so square I could n’t string her no more, so I told her who I was.
at string (along), v.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 87: ‘Does Mame ride?’ ‘Does she? She’s a scorchalorum.’.
at -alorum, sfx
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 16: There ain’t nobody else one-two-seven. They ain’t even in the ‘also rans’.
at also-ran, n.
[US] Ade Artie 171: Any old farmer [...] could buy up him and a hundred more like him.
at any old, adj.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 63: He would n’t go out with a piece o’ lead pipe or do any o’ that strong-arm work.
at strong-arm, adj.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 9: You didn’t think this game [i.e. poker] was a game o’ muggins [...] This was the real old army game.
at army game (n.) under army, n.2
[US] Ade Artie 49: Say, there was a battle-ax if you ever see one. She had a face on her that’d fade flowers.
at battle-axe, n.1
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 10: I’ll try it, an’ if it do n’t go, it’s a baby risk.
at baby, adj.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 7: Mrs. Morton got me a good seat and then back-clapped the show a little before it opened up.
at backclap (v.) under back, adj.2
[US] Ade Artie 54: Did you ever get the worst of it in such a way that you couldn’t come back at the time?
at come back, v.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 57: She’s a nice girl, though. I don’t want to back-cap her.
at backcap, v.
[US] Ade Artie 67: ‘He has a bad eye,’ said Miller.
at bad-eye, n.2
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 98: She had him balled up till he couldn’t say a word.
at ball up, v.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 57: She had him balled up till he could n’t say a word.
at balled-up, adj.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 67: Can you beat him? Can you tie him?
at can you beat it? under beat, v.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 9: Everybody [...] beefin’ about the way the hands was runnin’.
at beef, v.1
[US] Ade Artie 103: If you can’t travel with the bell-cows, why stick to the gang?
at bell cow, n.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 34: Mebbe that’s because he had a few under his belt, but anyway it went with me.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 64: Even if he does sandbag a few o’ them rich blokies what’s the diff?
at bloke, n.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 91: You ought o’ heard some o’ the large blue language the old man got rid of.
at blue, adj.3
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 9: I saw as much as two bones change hands.
at bone, n.4
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 34: [He] comes over an’ touches me for two cases. Now, you know you can’t go up and bone a stranger for stuff, can you? He knew me well enough to get the two.
at bone, v.1
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 63: He turned out to be a boodler, eh?
at boodler, n.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 26: I’ll make book right here that you’re livin’ off o’ your mother or sister and payin’ no board.
at make book (on) (v.) under book, n.
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 63: There’s a lot o’ them church people that boosted him two years ago that’s out now to skin him.
at boost, v.1
[US] Ade Artie (1963) 33: He threw the boots into me the worst I ever got ’em.
at put the boots to (v.) under boot, the, n.
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