1946 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.
1946 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.
1946 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
1946 T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 Are you positive that that beezark is Jake McGonigle?at bezark, n.
1946 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
1946 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
1946 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
1946 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.
1946 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.
1946 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
1946 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.
1946 T. Thursday ‘Raw, Medium, and Well Done’ in Blue Ribbon Western June 🌐 ‘What’s the gaff?’ I says. ‘Tell papa!’.at gaff, n.3
1946 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.
1946 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.
1946 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
1946 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.
1946 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.
1946 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
1946 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
1946 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.
1947 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
1947 T. Thursday ‘Billy the Kidder’ in Blue Ribbon Western Nov. 🌐 I will personally add ten buckaroos to the reward.at buck, n.3
1947 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.
1947 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
1947 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.
1947 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
1947 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.
1947 T. Thursday ‘Billy the Kidder’ in Blue Ribbon Western Nov. 🌐 A nice hook-up! [...] Yup; a very nice hook-up!at hook-up, n.
1947 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.
1947 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.