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[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 204: She ran a black-and-tan road-house.
at black and tan, adj.
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 92: Some one had mentioned Pay Dirt. The name hung among the cobwebs of my attic.
at attic, n.
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 13: Sometimes he would stay at a log cabin hidden in the bad-lands.
at bad land (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 158: That gyp artist he’s ballyhooing for district attorney.
at ballyhoo, v.
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 203: Take it easy, you high brown cake-walker, or I’ll send you up to nigger heaven.
at high-brown, adj.
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 60: Yep. Got the bug in my lungs, Doc.
at bug, n.4
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 111: Go button your mouth, big boy.
at button one’s lip, v.
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 68: You look a lot like Wade usta to look, button. I bet you got his sand too.
at button, n.3
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 82: All you’d git would be a dose uh gun lead.
at dose, n.1
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 47: Bull’s no slouch with his dukes.
at duke, n.3
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 44: Yo’re more harmless than a gut-eatin’ reservation squaw.
at gut-eating, adj.
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 173: Let’s [...] crook our elbows while exchanging choice bits of wit and wisdom.
at crook the elbow (v.) under elbow, n.1
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 43: I got the goods on Bull Mitchell this time.
at have the goods on someone (v.) under goods, n.
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 1: He’s out either to gut-shoot or to run me outa the country.
at gut-shoot (v.) under gut, n.
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 43: Some of the white folks around here might make it hot fer him.
at make it hot for (v.) under hot, adj.
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 187: For the love of Jupiter, wash that smelly junk off your hair.
at junk, n.1
[US] W. Coburn Law Rides the Range 187: For the love of Jupiter, wash that smelly junk off your hair.
at for the love of Mike! (excl.) under love, n.
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