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[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 179: A dock-and-doris all around to our success.
at dock-and-doris, n.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 361: I dropped in among those Fifth Avenue burglars once, just to see if I couldn’t cop a little of their classy work – sort of on the up-and-up, you know, showing I’m as ambitious a little fellow as ever sung a hymn.
at on the up and up (adj.) under up-and-up, n.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 371: The activities of the Petties take in the ‘Avenue’ as well as the ‘Lane’.
at Avenue, the, n.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 365: We couldn’t kick back the hock-rock.
at kick back, v.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’ s Man 134: It might get us a piece of money for a sorta refined ‘badger’ – oh, nothing coarse, nothing rough, nothing not classy.
at badger, n.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 206: I’d bend a paving stone over his beezer.
at beezer, n.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 265: There ain’t many places like this left, go bet your shirt on that, boy.
at bet one’s buttons (v.) under bet, v.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 128: Everything’s harmonious – then – bingo! – in drops a dame and everything’s crabbed.
at bingo!, excl.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 138: A trey for a jitney – less’n two cents per smoke.
at trey-bit, n.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 265: Since this new law you can get a two-years’ bit [...] just for selling the stuff.
at bit, n.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 362: ‘If l give you this four bits,’ I says, ‘will you promise not to get away with forty-nine cents of it between here and the altar?’.
at four bits (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 368: They blow over from Europe in those cattleships at a sawbuck a head.
at blow in, v.2
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 211: A blow-off one girl’s giving who’s going across the big ditch – Europe.
at blow off, n.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 143: I’ve had thousands in my time [...] Blew ’em in on booze and women.
at blow in, v.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 28: That father of mine’s just the craziest old bonehead in the world.
at bonehead, n.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 250: A big Manchu Chink, six foot three with a pair of big horn spectacles on him, bossing the job.
at boss, v.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 129: Pink starts to bang the box.
at box, n.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 190: She fell for a honkatonk box-beater at Billy’s.
at box-beater (n.) under box, n.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 420: Archie’s wrists were braceleted.
at bracelets, n.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 181: Arnold became one of the Silk-Hat brigade.
at brigade, n.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 147: The prisoners pushed into the ‘bull-pen’ – a huge square room, a stone floor filthy with tobacco juice, no seats, one side open to the gaze of privileged persons – reporters, [...] shyster lawyers.
at bullpen, n.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 363: One day a big burly in a Tux is standing around givin’ the joint the once-over.
at burly, n.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 376: Come off with that small-time humor. It even gets the hook in burlycue.
at burlycue, n.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 362: What would the public think of a desperate smuggler in a Dunlop cady and [...] light cloth-top patent leathers?
at cady, n.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 175: A can of it [i.e. opium] used to sell for five dollars – five dollars for less than a pound.
at can, n.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 128: The Swede unloads a cannon, and gits Joe in the currency kick.
at cannon, n.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 278: They don’t ever seem to let him have enough to blow a round of drinks or a card of stuff.
at card, n.2
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 198: Who wouldn’t, with a little ten-thousand-dollar go-cart sent around every afternoon to ride her around again, Willie.
at go-cart, n.
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 361: I took out half a caser and looked him in the eye.
at half-a-caser (n.) under caser, n.1
[US] G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 281: Beau and me had beat him out of half-a-century at the ‘match’ one night.
at half-century (n.) under century, n.
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