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[US] Colton & Randolph Rain II 141: I guess I’m the dumbbell king, all right.
at dumb-bell, adj.
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain II 128: You Bible backs don’t fool me. I’ve met you before!
at bibleback, n.
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain I 8: We’ll have that bird on his feet and down to the dock—chop-chop pronto!
at chop-chop, adv.
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain I 58: griggs: Look—Batesy’s one jump ahead of a fit. hodgson: One frantic kangaroo!
at frantic, adj.
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain II 145: You miserable snail snatcher [...] it makes me sick even to look at you. That’s what I think of you, coming to me with all that guff you spilled about salvation.
at guff, n.1
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain II 101: He wasn’t looking any too well when I saw him gumshoeing down the road this morning.
at gumshoe, v.
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain I 56: Down the hatch!
at down the hatch! under hatch, n.2
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain I 56: ‘Not that you’ll need it, Sadie,’ said he — ‘you were born hooched.’.
at hooched (up), adj.
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain II 146: What did the Governor know or care about me until you went and hauled your hooks into me?
at hook, n.1
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain II 166: What’s that the old jig does?
at jig, n.4
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain II 145: That’s what I think of you, coming to me with all that guff you spilled about salvation—then going and having me deported on top of it—you low lived.
at lowlife, n.
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain III i 206: sadie: I’m sorry Handsome, but I see clear. o’hara: See clear! Why this old gadget’s got you so it’s like your doped.
at old gadget (n.) under old, adj.
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain III ii 241: You men—you’re all alike (hoarsely) Pigs! Pigs! I wouldn’t trust one of you.
at pig, n.
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain III 191: You know the old shouter better than I do.
at shouter, n.2
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain II 155: Tell him I can get work in Sydney—straight stuff.
at straight goods (n.) under straight, adj.1
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain II 127: You want another scalp to hand to the Lord. Well, you don’t get mine, old tit-bit!
at tit-bit (n.) under tit, n.1
[US] Colton & Randolph Rain III 189: They’re to tote your bags.
at tote, v.1
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