1951 L. Brown Iron City 150: He fetched all the coal-oil he could find and he poured it on the fire. Hot? Whooeee! Hotter’n a two-dollar pistol on the Fourth of July.at ...a (three-dollar) pistol under hot as..., adj.
1951 L. Brown Iron City 65: If there’s going to be Jim Crow, please put me right in with my people!at Jim Crow, n.
1951 L. Brown Iron City 94: ‘First off,’ Faulcon said, ‘how many of you-all knows that good old church song, ‘I Been Tramping’?’.at first off under first, adj.
1951 L. Brown Iron City 102: Cotton-mouth snake will bite till you’re dead, / But just don’t turn your back on a lowdown handkerchief head.at handkerchief-head, n.1
1951 L. Brown Iron City 151: I ain’t never going to drive nothing more’n some ol’ jug-haid mule.at jugheaded, adj.
1951 L. Brown Iron City 38: Why did they arrest you, if you don’t mind me being so nebby?at nebby, adj.1
1951 L. Brown Iron City 196: Ryan, where the hell you been screwing off to?at screw off (v.) under screw, v.
1951 L. Brown Iron City 156: The link-and-pin claimed the lives of eight of his fellow shacks.at shack, n.1
1951 L. Brown Iron City 148: Let’s make it snappy this time.at make it snappy (v.) under snappy, adj.