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[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 63: In the Commercial Agencies he was Rated AA Plus A1, which meant that he had it in Bales.
at A-1, adj.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 205: No matter how much Agony you threw on, if you were not in this Book, your Name was Dennis.
at agony, n.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 241: You are what Charles Francis Adams would call a Peachalorum.
at -alorum, sfx
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 286: He never Batted an Eye when the Peerless Half-Back went down the Field.
at not bat an eye(lid), v.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 191: The Man who had been knocking around for Thirty-eight Years.
at knock around, v.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 40: When he applied for a Consulate, all the influential Moguls of the Party signed his Petition. Then they sat down and wrote Private Letters to Back-Cap him.
at backcap, v.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 27: He was out every Night with a lot of Bag-Punchers who showed him how to convert his Ready Money into Popularity.
at bag-puncher (n.) under bag, n.1
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 174: A high-grade Heeler who had helped divvy the Campaign Fund and round up the Barrel-House Vote and get the Hoboes into Line for Good Government.
at barrelhouse, n.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 112: He who had been bawled out for two years as the most refined, cultivated and scholarly Youth east or west of the Alleghenies turned out to be the same as all the others.
at bawl out, v.1
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 180: When it comes to being there with the Gray Matter you have got all of us Old People left at the Post.
at be there, v.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 198: I have been all over the Country putting up at bad Beaneries.
at beanery, n.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 171: She veered around and gave him a Broadside that was a Beaut.
at beaut, n.1
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 207: I don’t like to Beef [...] but I feel like the Farm Hand from Muscatine.
at beef, v.1
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 89: A certain Mrs. A. had a Way of reading the Riot Act to the Other Half of the Domestic Sketch.
at better half, n.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 76: Mazie was getting a Big Head and put on too many Frills to suit him.
at big head, n.1
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 227: He got his Bit every time he Pinched any one.
at bit, n.1
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 19: For a whole Evening you Blat about your own Affairs.
at blat, v.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 222: [He] seeped up frequent High Balls, accompanied by a little Snack of Oyster Crackers, the embalmed Herring known as the Blind Robin.
at blind robin (n.) under blind, adj.1
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 285: The Saloon Men were shrieking to the Participants to Beat his Block off and Jam him in the Kisser.
at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 1: He thought that when he failed to Show Up, she was in her own Room, looking at his Picture and Feeling Blue.
at blue, adj.1
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 253: He said he wanted them to stay in of Evenings and Bone hard.
at bone, v.3
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 198: I, who have taken no Precautions, am Strong as an Ox and feeling Boss.
at boss, adj.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 221: They opened two or three Cold Bots and ate a few hillocks of Cottage Cheese, Souse.
at bot, n.2
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 69: Mazie never failed to Bowl him over, for she was a Dream of Loveliness.
at bowl over, v.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 19–20: From the Minute that any Charley-Boy shows up at my Work-Shop, I talk about Him and nothing else.
at charley-boy, n.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 66: He is put against a new Brace Game every Week.
at brace game, n.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 166: He came down on them like 1,000 of Brick if they failed to be Polite.
at like a ton of brick(s) (adv.) under brick, n.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 288: The Market Man would have called her a good sizable Broiler.
at broiler, n.
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 159–60: Four Haggard Beings, scantily Clad, sat at the Table and weakly endeavoured to Bump one another.
at bump, v.1
[US] Ade Forty Modern Fables 67: He is a Come-On for any Bunco Game in the List.
at bunco game (n.) under bunco, n.
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