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[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 41: As soon as he got into Practice and began to connect with the Currency he could shake the Oatmeal Circuit and move up to an A 1 Hotel.
at A-1, adj.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 260: Why was it considered Bad Form for a Regular to Quit, even though he was already Whittled?
at whittled (as a penguin), adj.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 16: ‘Except for one Peculiarity, you think she’s all right?’ ‘Aces and eights!’.
at aces and eights (adj.) under aces, adj.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 45: He got it into the Acorn that each Tract of Ground [...] was operated as a Gift Enterprise.
at acorn, n.2
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 253: Now the Débutante could look straight at any Cardinal Truth and never bat an Eye.
at not bat an eye(lid), v.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 187: The certain Prospect of Juicy Contracts which would convert the Fliv into a Baby Doll.
at baby-doll (n.) under baby, n.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 146: He had applauded when vicious Pugs bammed each other in a padded Ring.
at bam, v.2
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 35: They could not Bant fast enough to keep up with her.
at bant, v.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 133: He went around blowing that he could Eat Anything, and all the Light Feeders slunk into the Background when he lifted his Bazoo.
at bazoo, n.1
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 84: He allows that he will shoot every Bean in the old Tin Box and die Poor.
at bean, n.1
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 38: [He] found himself domiciled in a Refined Joint that was a cross between a Salon and a Beanery.
at beanery, n.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 140: He was a Bear on the whole Line of Tea-Gurgle.
at bear, n.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 118: [They] told him his Road House was a Bear.
at bear, n.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 53: He was a Beetle on the kind of Music that put Joe to Sleep.
at beetle, n.1
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 256: Evidently you are behind the Parade.
at behind the parade (adj.) under behind, prep.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 81: This Traveller was a City Yap, which is worse than being a Begosher, because the R.F.D. Boob usually knows that he is below Par.
at below par, adj.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 12: [They] assured Mr. Hemmingway that he had been going big because he had improved his Stance.
at go big (v.) under big, adv.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 55: One day when the True Friend had Condoled until she was sniffing on the Verge of Hysteria, Joe walked in on them and wanted to Know what was the whole Idea.
at what’s the (big) idea?, phr.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 28: He was a Joke until the Music started, but after that he was a Big Chief.
at big chief (n.) under big, adj.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 30: Business had taken a Bingo on the head and dropped lifeless. The Orders stopped coming.
at bingo, n.2
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 146: He had seen the Ponies come scooting into the Home Chute, and then he had hurried in to mace his Bit from Ikey.
at bit, n.1
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 129: The Fig Cake was a Triumph and the Jelly Cake held its Shape but the Hickory-Nut Cake went Blah.
at blah, adj.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 113: The Life Dream of every Coin Collector is to go back to his original P.O. Address and bleat at those who never could see anything in him.
at bleat, v.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 95: Some day he would bust forth from his blithering Bondage and jamboree his way through Europe.
at blithering, adj.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 305: No matter how much of a Blob a man may be in his own Bailiwick, he becomes a Mastodon as soon as he is 80 miles from home and wearing a Badge.
at blob, n.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 88: The famous Wall Street Blokie, Jimmy Hooper, dressed up like a Horse.
at bloke, n.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 285: He had to find an Occupation or else go Blooey.
at go blooey (v.) under blooey!, excl.
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 133: He went around blowing that he could Eat Anything.
at blow, v.1
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 96: [He was] all packed and was ready to Yo-Heave-Ho, when the Blow-Off came.
at blow off, n.2
[US] Ade Hand-made Fables 11: Freedie had no aching Desire to move out of the Blue Room into the Calaboose.
at blue room (n.) under blue, adj.1
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