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Let Me Breathe Thunder choose

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[UK] W. Attaway Let Me Breathe Thunder (1940) 224: I was the only man she ever took up with that could really hit the ball.
at hit the ball, v.
[UK] W. Attaway Let Me Breathe Thunder (1940) 218: He was being dragged to the open door of the ‘balling’ car. The kid gave a sharp cry.
at ball, v.1
[UK] W. Attaway Let Me Breathe Thunder (1940) 201: Thrown out on the street buck naked.
at buck-naked (adj.) under buck, n.1
[UK] W. Attaway Let Me Breathe Thunder (1940) 20: Ain’t nothing there but Spick and Mex shacks.
at Mex, adj.
[UK] W. Attaway Let Me Breathe Thunder (1940) 12: ‘A pony and two glasses,’ ordered Step, slapping the bar with the fat of his hand.
at pony, n.
[UK] W. Attaway Let Me Breathe Thunder (1940) 212: ‘Got any ready-mades?’ ‘I handed him a cigarette and lit one for myself’.
at ready-made (n.) under ready, adj.
[UK] W. Attaway Let Me Breathe Thunder (1940) 224: We got so we liked each other just like regular folks.
at regular guy (n.) under regular, adj.
[UK] W. Attaway Let Me Breathe Thunder (1940) 225: With a rooster like me in her house Mag was the target of every sporting woman in the West.
at sporting lady (n.) under sporting, adj.
[UK] W. Attaway Let Me Breathe Thunder (1940) 225: I was the best sweetman this side of the Rockies in my day.
at sweetman, n.
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