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[US] T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 Fire—hell! It was just another false alarm—like Blood Thirsty McGaff.
at false alarm, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 Next, the uppercut, [...] a counterpunch, and the one most used to score a finisher with.
at finisher, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 He is canvassing the town’s best grease-garage — Oxford for beanery — in search of some steaming coffee and perhaps a snack.
at grease joint (n.) under grease, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 The left hook [...] the boy who knows his hanswurst can even lay his playmate on the floor with it.
at Hans wurst, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 He has hooked the natives for all the dough that he will need for some time.
at hook, v.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 I got in a jam back East with the burglar what managed me and I had to lam out.
at jam, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 I got in a jam back East with the burglar what managed me and I had to lam out.
at lam, v.2
[US] T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 Funny Puss replies that he is very delighted, indeed, to hear from an old palsy-walsy.
at palsy-walsy, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 It is a crime the way a nice little boy [...] is going to get his face pasted proper by a real boxer.
at proper, adv.
[US] T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ in All Sports Feb. 🌐 It was a typical rube audience, with farmers to the right of you, farmers to the left.
at rube, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘There’s Hicks In All Trades’ All Sports Feb. 🌐 I get a very welcome letter from my Uncle Ebenezer Merrifellow, up in a slab named Yipp Center, N.Y.
at slab, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Hart Failure’ in All Sports Aug. 🌐 I am a sappo for not risking a bob or two, as I can use some extra spinach.
at bob, n.3
[US] T. Thursday ‘Hart Failure’ in All Sports Aug. 🌐 Well, leave us not be too hoggish, I always say.
at hoggish, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Hart Failure’ in All Sports Aug. An old palsy-walsy from Perth Amboy, New Joisey.
at palsy-walsy, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Hart Failure’ in All Sports Aug. n.p.: You will make the boys think that you have no respect for the institution and they may get sored up.
at sored up (adj.) under sore up, v.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Hart Failure’ in All Sports Aug. 🌐 I am a sappo for not risking a bob or two, as I can use some extra spinach.
at spinach, n.2
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