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[US] Charlotte Observer (NC) 27 July 4: In the city police court a motley crowd of prisoners filled the mourners’ benches .
at mourner’s bench, n.
[US] General Wood’s speech at The Selwyn Hotel, quoted in Charlotte (NC) Observer 6 July 🌐 All this is for the soldier for personally we do not give a ‘hump’ who gets a camp, but we must play the game squarely and try to give them the best place possible.
at hump, n.1
[US] Charlotte (NC) Observer 🌐 18 Jul. Why do shady trades when you’re already making bookoodles? Because we can.
at boocoodles, n.
[US] Charlotte (NC) Observer 9 Nov. 🌐 ‘They only have one enemy in the federal joint and that’s the federal government,’ he said. ‘Anybody who’s stood up to the federal government is OK with them.’.
at federal joint (n.) under federal, adj.
[US] Charlotte (NC) Observer 2 Apr. 🌐 [heading] Make household filth bite the dust.
at bite the dust (v.) under dust, n.
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