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[US] L. Brown Iron City 25: A and B is assault and battery.
at a. and b., n.
[US] L. Brown Iron City 40: Alimony, my ass!
at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
[US] 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.
[US] L. Brown Iron City 216: That’s my gal, a brownskin Geogia peach.
at brownskin, adj.
[US] L. Brown Iron City 75: Catch you later.
at catch you later under catch, v.1
[US] 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.
[US] L. Brown Iron City 207: I was walking my cell and cussing up a blue streak.
at cuss, v.
[US] 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.
[US] L. Brown Iron City 196: By God it’s Mr. Winkel for real!
at for real, adv.
[US] 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
[US] L. Brown Iron City 33: That’s called highball. Railroad signal, means let’s go!
at highball, n.2
[US] L. Brown Iron City 25: Zach here don’t know that jailhouse jive.
at jive, n.1
[US] L. Brown Iron City 151: I ain’t never going to drive nothing more’n some ol’ jug-haid mule.
at jugheaded, adj.
[US] L. Brown Iron City 38: Why did they arrest you, if you don’t mind me being so nebby?
at nebby, adj.1
[US] L. Brown Iron City 196: Ryan, where the hell you been screwing off to?
at screw off (v.) under screw, v.
[US] L. Brown Iron City 156: The link-and-pin claimed the lives of eight of his fellow shacks.
at shack, n.1
[US] L. Brown Iron City 112: How come you don’t cut out all that signifying?
at signifying, n.
[US] L. Brown Iron City 148: Let’s make it snappy this time.
at make it snappy (v.) under snappy, adj.
[US] L. Brown Iron City 32: The hell I won’t, Whitey.
at whitey, n.
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