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[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 48: There wasn’t any bigness [...] to grabbing the apple and winging it to a baseman’s mitt.
at apple, n.1
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 31: Who the heck wanted a girl that didn’t twist around or get a boy out of breath before he bagged her?
at bag, v.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 33: She respected his huffy, sassy, big-boy attitude.
at big boy, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 37: She’s sweet on Carl Jenowitch, that big bohunk slob.
at bohunk, adj.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 240: Go-o o-on, tie the animal outside.
at tie that bull outside under bull, n.6
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 236: Girls that act a little ladylike. A little’s enough to get the bum’s rush in that joint.
at bum’s rush, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 234: When the cappers on the floor — the men who tear the tickets — get a crush on a girl and she won’t tumble, they swear to the boss that she’s holding out on the tickets.
at capper, n.1
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 51: It was a cheap, doggish job for anyone with the least brains.
at doggish (adj.) under dog, n.2
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 22: All the rest was flubdub, preacher’s lies.
at flub, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 241: The info’ you handed me was enough to make a guy run to the doctor!
at info, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 237: If a hall is closed you can bet your last leaf it was because it wouldn’t pay enough.
at leaf, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 43: It was all right to be a molly and see queer things and love to pick bunches of wild flowers and get so damn soft inside you couldn’t recognize yourself; if you didn’t show this weaker side to any one — the boys in particular.
at molly, n.1
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 104: When it comes to memory, Goosta, you’re nix as a traveling companion.
at nix, adj.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 235: The system is not to bother the rough babies but make a big show of taking up for the girls by going after the boobs and the silly-looking peanuts. When a sap tries to manhandle a girl, then they rush him out on his ear.
at peanut, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 67: You pile into me when I’m rough and you wade in when I’m sorry for it.
at pile in (v.) under pile, v.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 43: It was all right to be a molly and see queer things [...] if you didn’t show this weaker side to any one—the boys in particular: they’d swat you in a minute—and kept it from bouncing up all the time lest it make you an out-and-out si-ill.
at sil, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 107: Go ahead and tell her, snitchy-cat.
at snitchy-cat (n.) under snitchy, adj.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 227: I don’t see how [...] a steno’s got much to brag about.
at steno, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 236: A girl gets a mean idea down at the Troc’.
at Troc, the, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 240: Go-o o-on, tie the animal outside.
at tie that bull outside under tie, v.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 239: You come up to my place — I’ve got a vic’.
at Vic, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Sixty Seconds 71: Myrtle [...] smeared on the war-paint till she was a sight.
at war-paint (n.) under war, n.
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