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Blue Ribbon Western choose

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[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 It was as simple as falling off a greased pig!
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 It’s the old apcray [...] he’ll take a few days to spring the gag, then blooey — hail and farewell!
at apcray, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, & Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 These Western bean-heads are sick of looking at Fat Girls, Bearded Ladies, and Snake Charmers.
at bean-head (n.) under bean, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 Are you positive that that beezark is Jake McGonigle?
at bezark, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 He asks three of the boys to place cartwheel silver dollars on the table.
at cartwheel, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 Two of the cowpokes drop four-bits each on the table.
at cowpoke (n.) under cow, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 Some cow waddie suggests ‘Who Scalped Osceola In the Moonlight?’.
at cow waddie (n.) under cow, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 You may have picked up a load of five-and-ten buck words since I saw you last, but you and me was born on the same side of the tracks.
at two-dollar words (n.) under two-dollar, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 He’ll spring a fast one, and then blow.
at pull a fast one (v.) under fast one, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 The meeting is a floperoo, meaning no dice.
at floperoo (n.) under flop, n.5
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 When we got finished with the frame, the professor was the picture.
at frame-up, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 ‘What’s the gaff?’ I says. ‘Tell papa!’.
at gaff, n.3
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 ‘What’s the gimmick?’ ‘It’s the old apcray,’ says Horse Tooth.
at gimmick, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 What the Sam Houston was Horse Tooth yapping about?
at what the Sam Hill! (excl.) under Sam Hill, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 ‘Listen to the ape!’ whispers Horse. ‘Boy, what a line; what a line!’.
at line, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 The sheriff is the main mugg and he does his own collecting in the gambling joints and dancehalls.
at main mug (n.) under main, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 Boy [...] ain’t that some oatmeal, huh? Why, the crooked crocodile should get a load of buckshot in the pants!
at oatmeal, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 ‘What’s more,’ steams up Horse Tooth, ‘I knew that bum years ago [...] the big flounder-head borreys ten bucks from me and promptly forgets same.’.
at steam up (v.) under steam, v.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 He’s just putting out the sucker bait [...] When he gets the boobs all a-flutter, he’ll bump ’em.
at sucker-bait (n.) under sucker, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 These Western bean-heads are sick of looking at [...] Bearded Ladies, and Snake Charmers. This Flutterbutt yamneck will lay ’em in the cactus.
at yamneck, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Billy the Kidder’ in Blue Ribbon Western Nov. 🌐 The way he faced the Zizzen bums took gold-plated guts.
at brass guts (n.) under brass, adj.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Billy the Kidder’ in Blue Ribbon Western Nov. 🌐 I will personally add ten buckaroos to the reward.
at buck, n.3
[US] T. Thursday ‘Billy the Kidder’ in Blue Ribbon Western Nov. 🌐 He hands me six pages of corral dust which I am supposed to memorize.
at bulldust, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Billy the Kidder’ in Blue Ribbon Western Nov. 🌐 The town had been founded by a bunch of cattleconkers.
at cow-banger (n.) under cow, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Billy the Kidder’ in Blue Ribbon Western Nov. 🌐 At that, me and McGinty edge toward the sidewall canvas, for a quick duckout.
at duck-out, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Billy the Kidder’ in Blue Ribbon Western Nov. 🌐 The Zizzen Boys, followed by a flock of extra-special flatheads, enter the tent.
at flathead, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘Billy the Kidder’ in Blue Ribbon Western Nov. 🌐 [He is] just sitting in the sideshow for a cover-up, so the marshals won’t get hep to his game.
at get hep (v.) under hep, adj.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Billy the Kidder’ in Blue Ribbon Western Nov. 🌐 A nice hook-up! [...] Yup; a very nice hook-up!
at hook-up, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Billy the Kidder’ in Blue Ribbon Western Nov. 🌐 Three more hombres tell stories that even Joe Miller refused to put in his joke book.
at Joe Miller, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘Billy the Kidder’ in Blue Ribbon Western Nov. 🌐 This fairly honest larceny is known as the shell game.
at shell game (n.) under shell, n.
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