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Side-stepping with Shorty choose

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[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 9: I no sooner take hold of one down and outer, sweat the high livin’ out of him, and fix him up [...] than he passes the word along to another.
at down-and-outer, n.
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 33: Adolph, the grocery clerk, dippin’ his beak into a mug of froth.
at dip one’s beak (v.) under beak, n.2
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 40: Me back to the sweat box at eight when I’m getting fourteen for this? Not on your ping pongs!
at sweat-box, n.
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 10: But say, Buddy; you tell Mr. Dawes that next time he wants me just to pull the string.
at buddy, n.
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 26: If a Lady Bughouse has strayed in here, we got to shoo her out as quiet as possible.
at bughouse, n.
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 22: I’ve worked up a grouch against this job durin’ the last few minutes. I guess I’ll chuck it up.
at chuck it, v.
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 33: Adolph, the grocery clerk, dippin’ his beak into a mug of froth.
at froth, n.
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 9: I’ve been up against the money bags so close I expect you can find eagle prints all over me.
at moneybag(s) (n.) under money, n.
[US] S. Ford Side-Stepping with Shorty 90: Then me and Sadie in her bubble, towin’ the busted one-lunger behind .
at one-lunger (n.) under one, adj.
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 18: Say, you peanut head, can’t you see this is some relation?
at peanut-head (n.) under peanut, n.
[US] S. Ford Side-Stepping with Shorty 13: Then we bumps up against a really truly plute, and gets a squint at his dinner check .
at plute, n.
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 16: Fletcher is short winded and soft [...] Inside of ten minutes he knows just how punky he is himself.
at punky, adj.
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 41: Why, Bishop, you’re a reg’lar ripe old sport.
at ripe, adj.
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 33: I felt sorry for them suds slingers that travels around the deck singin’ out, ‘Who wants the waiter?’.
at suds jerker (n.) under suds, n.1
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 16: She’s a nice, decent lookin’ old girl, that don’t seem to be either tanked or batty.
at tanked (up), adj.
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 9: Looks like all the fat wads in New York was gettin’ to know about Shorty McCabe.
at fat wad (n.) under wad, n.1
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 16: He’s got a bad liver and a worse heart, for five or six years’ trainin’ on wealthy water and pâté de foie gras hasn’t done him any good.
at wealthy water, n.
[US] S. Ford Side-stepping with Shorty 16: A Willie boy in a frock coat was followin’ along behind [ibid.] 17: ‘Here, here!’ says the Willie that I’d spotted for Corson.
at willie, n.1
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