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[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 220: ‘Drunk!’ ‘Like a owl.’.
at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 155: You’re a tinhorn and ain’t got a bag to bet. How many stamps was it you stole, a dollar’s worth or a dime’s worth? Sure you won’t bet a bag.
at bag, n.1
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 216: A skinner chides a mule: ‘Giddap, crow bait, ’fore I fan your tail wi’ this leather’.
at crow-bait, n.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 267: An insane asylum [...] bathouse.
at bat house (n.) under bat, n.5
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 87: He’ll still be battin’ around on that stump.
at bat, v.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 41: He tries to unlimber his rod, but I beat ’im to the wheel.
at beat to the gun (v.) under beat, v.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 40: I go in a dump an’ put the B on the boss.
at put the bee on (v.) under bee, n.1
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 118: We’ll go hungry anyway, you belly-robbin’ bastard.
at belly-robbing (adj.) under belly, n.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 257: The Old Man takes his belt of gin at the end of the day.
at belt, n.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 82: Hot dam! [...] Git dis law out de way. Den us kin snatch ouah women an’ blow ouah snow.
at blow, v.1
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 42: ‘What did they give you – the works, didn’t they?’ [...] ‘Yeah. The papers got that much straight. Yeah. Both barrels. The book.’.
at book, n.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 228: These screws are all so chipper they would break out guns and make them crack after a running vic for the fun of it.
at break out, v.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 265: Bull-wool – shoddy.
at bullwool (adj.) under bull, n.6
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 115: Holy preachers come out every night [...] ’Till they get all your coin on the drum; / Then they tell you when you’re on the bum: [...] You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
at on a/the bum under bum, n.3
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 36: Bust it up, old-timer.
at bust it! (excl.) under bust, v.1
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 41: He gives me one look an’ hauls his caboose back up to the stem.
at caboose, n.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 40: He’s an old gink with funny cheaters an’ a Dinwiddie.
at cheaters, n.2
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 40: I nearly go to the mat with one cherry-picker. He cracks som’pin about bums I don’t like.
at cherry-picker, n.1
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 228: These screws are all so chipper they would break out guns and make them crack after a running vic for the fun of it.
at chipper, adj.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 42: He sends me in some Durham an’ a few clackers.
at clacker, n.2
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 41: The sporty clown don’t like this an’ starts usin’ names I don’t like a damn bit.
at clown, n.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 261: But if only the nights would go easier [...] Some of them are longer than they were when you were in your coop.
at coop, n.1
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 228: These screws are all so chipper they would break out guns and make them crack after a running vic for the fun of it.
at crack, v.1
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 27: Listen, Joe, you’re off your crock on that.
at crock, n.3
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 40: Well, me an’ him an’ a gunsel dangles into this burgh.
at dangle, v.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 21: He was some kind of a one-barreled gambler before he was made dep.
at dep, n.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 40: I start ding-dongin’ an’ collect a few dimes.
at ding-dong, v.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 109: Somewhere in Mexican Tom’s family, assuredly, was a don of old Castile.
at don, n.
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 248: I wish I had something to dope me to sleep ’til breakfast.
at dope, v.1
[US] A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 185: That puttin’ him in de dozen, Singin’ Man! Sing him out some mo’. Sing him some mo’ dem pop-outs. He jus’ a lowdown lahk ou an’ me but he think he somebody.
at play the dozen(s) (v.) under dozens, n.
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