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[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 190: The slam-bang, wisecracking school of humor that characterizes the radio programs.
at slam-bang, adj.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 102: Bejabbers, and where did you get thim black eyes and bloody nose?
at bejabers!, excl.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 58: Catch him! Catch the blank blank blank!
at blank, n.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 168: ‘Battleships?’ boasted the British tar [...] ‘So what?’ sneered the American bluejacket.
at bluejacket, n.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 57: The man who gets a chance to buss a corn-fed Texas beauty.
at cornfed, adj.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 59: ‘Danged if I know,’ said the workman.
at dang, v.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 46: Dang busted if I ain’t larned to write.
at dang, adv.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 95: If it weren’t for the mustache, you’d be a dead ringer for my wife.
at dead ringer, n.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 209: ‘Great Jehosophat,’ he cried.
at great Caesar! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 11: ‘Holy Mackerel,’ exclaimed the soldier.
at holy mackerel!, excl.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 96: ‘Jiminy, Seth,’ screamed a hillbilly bride.
at jiminy!, excl.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 27: A varmint comes lickety split around the corner.
at lickety-split, adv.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 83: At a stag dinner in the Lambs Club a group of well lubricated convivials were startled by the sudden entrance of a weird character.
at lubricated, adj.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 83: Strike me down if I ain’t seen a big alligator down in the swamp with little Sambo in his mouth.
at strike me blind! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 83: A little pickaninny came running.
at piccaninny, n.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 141: No dame has been able to pin anything on me since I was ten months old!
at pin on (v.) under pin, v.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 206: A brat at the circus starts shovin’ peanuts up my schnozzola.
at schnozzola, n.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 168: ‘So what?’ sneered the American bluejacket.
at so what?, phr.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 70: Let’s keep the little stinker six months more.
at stinker, n.1
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 168: ‘Battleships?’ boasted the British tar.
at tar, n.1
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 206: I ups to him and says, ‘Desist, you is annoying me.’.
at up, v.
[US] B. Cerf Anything For a Laugh 89: The leading lady, a pip, who used to zip and strip.
at zip, v.1
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