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A Second Browser’s Dict. 182: Meat-and-potatoes. Basic. [...] Let’s get down to the meat-and-potatoes.at meat-and-potatoes, adj.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 182: Meat-and-potatoes. Basic. [...] Let’s get down to the meat-and-potatoes. A Second Browser’s Dict. 131: Hell around. To roam around in search of riotous fun or violence.at hell around, v.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 13: Bring home the bacon [...] 2. To succeed. To triumph.at bring home the bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
A Second Browser’s Dict. 34: Budge. A woman’s bosom, esp. the brassière encasing it and conceived as a sack or pouch for storage or safekeeping of small objects. She slipped (stuffed) the double sawbuck into her budge.at budge, n.3
A Second Browser’s Dict. 37: Buttinski. [...] A little help I could use; a Mr. Nosy Buttinski I got no need for.at buttinski, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 96: Fancy Dan. [...] 2. Boxing. A fighter who boxes artfully and has fancy footwork, but who cannot deliver a powerful punch.at fancy Dan, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 96: Fancy Dan. A flashy dude.at fancy Dan, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 157: Jim-dandy. An outstanding person or thing. The Kid was a jim-dandy.at jim dandy, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 157: They gave him a jim-dandy hanging.at jim-dandy, adj.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 76: Doodlebug. A whimsical nonesuch.at doodlebug (n.) under doodle, n.2
A Second Browser’s Dict. 192: Mule: suck-egg mule. A nonesuch idiom [...] Well, I’ll be a suck-egg mule! Exclam. of surprise, vexation.at suck-egg, adj.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 143: Hotfoot. A moronic practical joke.at hot foot, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 107: Gabfest. Any session marked by loquacity.at gabfest (n.) under gab, v.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 107: Stand the gaff. To bear up under punishment, pain, stress.at stand the gaff (v.) under gaff, n.2
A Second Browser’s Dict. 121: Gutless wonder. In WWII. A G.I. term of scorn for an officer who was gung ho on the parade ground but who tended to stay back in combat.at gutless wonder (n.) under gutless, adj.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 123: Gypsy cab [...] A taxi that is supposed to operate in response to phone calls [...] but that ignores the law and cruises the streets for fares.at gypsy, adj.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 171: Left-handed compliment. An insincere or ingenuously awkward compliment that is in fact a derogation.at left-handed compliment (n.) under left-handed, adj.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 171: Left-handed monkey wrench. An inane nonesuch by which underdeveloped ‘old hands’ send an ignorant new boob on a wild-goose chase to locate one.at left-handed monkey wrench (n.) under left-handed, adj.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 227: Puddin’ head. A dolt.at pudding-head, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 179: Horse manure! Nonsense.at horse manure (n.) under horse, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 156: In Am. navy usage, a cup of joe, prob. by way of an intermediate [...] form ‘cup of J’.at java, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 157: John Public, a useful personification, soon became John Q. Public, and John Q. Fucking Public.at John Q. Public, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 169: Take it on the lam. 1. To get out in a hurry. 2. To escape.at take it on the lam (v.) under lam, n.1
A Second Browser’s Dict. 183: Take one’s medicine [...] 2. To face up to the bitter consequences of one’s actions.at take one’s medicine (v.) under medicine, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 201: Nose habit. An addicition to cocaine.at nose habit (n.) under nose, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 213: Peanut gallery. A term of contempt for the loud, ignorant, and jingoistic mob that filled the cheap upper tiers of American theaters.at peanut gallery (n.) under peanut, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 222: Podunk. A generic term for the smallest and most backward of small towns.at podunk, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 261: SWAK. Sealed With A Kiss.at S.W.A.L.K., phr.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 248: Well, I’ll be dipped in shit!at I’ll be dipped in shit! (excl.) under shit, n.
A Second Browser’s Dict. 248: Shithead [...] 2. A heroin addict.at shithead, n.
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