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[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 278: It’s a penny ante business.
at penny ante, adj.
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 279: The two boys are baching it in a cabin with an older man.
at bach (it), v.
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 386: Hit him in the beer barrel!
at beer barrel (n.) under beer, n.
[US] B. Appel People Talk 281: He thought he’d be the big dog.
at big dog, n.
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 28: I got no use for Jewboys.
at Jew boy, n.
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 45: A drunk bronx-cheers everybody, salesmen and spectators.
at Bronx cheer, v.
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 272: You eat your dinner on the fly so you can finish drillin’ by four o’clock.
at on the fly under fly, n.1
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 46: Stickin’ up for the Jews, he must be a Jew!
at stick up for, v.
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 372: The head electrician or ‘gaffer’ nods at Russell.
at gaffer, n.2
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 438: They called us jitterbugs because we wore sixteen-inch cuffs and striped sweaters at the dances.
at jitterbug, n.
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 385: All the best leather pushers in the unions are going to throw their dynamite in the ring.
at leather-pusher (n.) under leather, n.
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 377: When I was punk I enjoyed it.
at punk, adj.
[US] (ref. to 1870s) B. Appel People Talk (1972) 328: They called him a rail splitter.
at railsplitter, n.
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 268: You’re not supposed to be admitted to a T.B. San unless you have T.B.
at san, n.
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 385: The Big Slug Fest Smoker.
at slugfest (n.) under slug, v.2
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 271: The average stiff would come along and dig in with his dirty hands for a piece of ice.
at stiff, n.1
[US] B. Appel People Talk (1972) 14: We played sweet over the Park Central, a little swing.
at sweet, adv.2
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