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Green Days by the River choose

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[UK] M. Anthony Green Days by River 108: But I mean he could bring his little girl-friend home and thing.
at and thing, phr.
[UK] M. Anthony Green Days by River 52: She said ‘You enjoying it?’ ‘I enjoying it bad, girl.’.
at bad, adv.
[UK] M. Anthony Green Days by River 55: Christ! I ain’t give her to you. I only lend you a dance, boy. You is chicken-hawk or what!
at chicken-hawk, n.
[UK] M. Anthony Green Days by River 132: ‘Joe, you cool-brains?’ I said.
at cool-brains (adj.) under cool, adj.
[UK] M. Anthony Green Days by River 173: Tiger! You dam’ silly idle coon!
at coon, n.
[UK] M. Anthony Green Days by River 8: ‘You mean the dougla girl?’ [...] He seemed amused by my saying ‘dougla’, which was the slang everyone used for people who were half Indian and half Negro. [Ibid.] 10: Anyway that girl is a dougla.
at dougla, n.
[UK] M. Anthony Green Days by River 127: I forgot clean, O jeese!
at jeez!, excl.
[UK] M. Anthony Green Days by River 113: He knew the difference between pig and wild beast. He was only sky-larking.
at lark, v.
[UK] M. Anthony Green Days by River 42: You looking major, man major.
at major, adj.
[UK] M. Anthony Green Days by River 94: ‘I could imagine how glad you is.’ ‘But he have to go back, you know.’ ‘Oh shocks!’.
at oh shocks!, excl.
[UK] M. Anthony Green Days by River 44: That Joe is a sharp-shooter!
at sharpshooter, n.
[UK] M. Anthony Green Days by River 70: There was a huge ice-box with an ice-shaver on top of it, where Freddie probably made press, and snowballs, and maybe even icecream.
at snowball, n.2
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