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Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts choose

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[US] Moonshine 158: The Court of Common Council has decided [...] to put a Gladstone bust up in the Guildhall. Whether it will be the Afghan bust up, or the Bulgarian bust up, or the Transvaal bust up, or the Irish bust up, is not yet declared.
at bust-up, n.
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 69: Propped next to his seat [...] was the tarnished bronze handle of a long, medieval-lookin dagger. ‘They call this an Arkansas toothpick,’ he told me.
at Arkansas toothpick (n.) under Arkansas, adj.
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 71: Old stories [...] of judges going home from court half-drunk on ‘corn squeezin’s’.
at corn squeezings (n.) under corn, n.1
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 196: As blacks joined the middle class, they wanted to live high on the hog as well.
at high on the hog under high, adj.1
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 100: In 1930 authorities estimated that fifteen thousand people had been partially paralyzed by ‘Jake,’ a type of moonshine made with Jamaica ginger.
at jake, n.3
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 100: There have always been two sorts of moonshine: the decent stuff, which is kept at home and sold to neighbors, and ‘nigger likker,’ [...] shipped to anonymous shot houses and nip joints in the big city.
at nigger liquor (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 100: There have always been two sorts of moonshine: the decent stuff, which is kept at home and sold to neighbors, and ‘nigger likker,’ [...] shipped to anonymous [...] nip joints in the big city.
at nip joint (n.) under nip, n.6
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 98: The next day he’s a hillbilly without a pot to pee in.
at not have a pot to piss in (or a window to throw it out of) (v.) under pot, n.1
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 100: It’s as if I’m back at the moonshiners’ reunion an the ’shine tasting has just been announced.
at shine, n.4
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 100: There have always been two sorts of moonshine: the decent stuff, which is kept at home and sold to neighbors, and ‘nigger likker,’ [...] shipped to anonymous shot houses [...] in the big city.
at shot-house (n.) under shot, n.1
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 205: By the late 1960s [...] Atlanta was full of soul brothers and soul sisters, wearing soul combs and doing soul handshakes. ‘Everything was getting souled,’ as Harris puts it.
at soul, adj.1
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 205: By the late 1960s [...] Atlanta was full of soul brothers and soul sisters, wearing soul combs and doing soul handshakes.
at soul brother (n.) under soul, adj.1
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 205: By the late 1960s [...] Atlanta was full of soul brothers and soul sisters, wearing soul combs and doing soul handshakes.
at soul sister (n.) under soul, adj.1
[US] B. Bilger Noodling for Flatheads (2001) 99: Joyce reaches under his desk and pulls out a half-gallon mason jar filled with white lightning.
at white lightning (n.) under white, adj.
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