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The Cave Man choose

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[US] J. Corbin Cave Man 320: Less than a week ago my shares were worth big dollars.
at big, adj.
[US] John Corbin Cave Man 12: You’re rather abrupt and masterful, aren’t you? It’s the way with — cave men.
at cave-man, n.
[US] J. Corbin Cave Man 14: I once heard a ticket chopper in the Subway call a gang of undergraduates ‘rah-rah boys’.
at chopper, n.1
[US] J. Corbin Cave Man 314: Some men are never too old. What is that they call them – cradle snatchers?
at cradle-snatcher (n.) under cradle, n.
[US] J. Corbin Cave Man 229: Why don’t you take your doll-rags and go home.
at doll-rags (n.) under doll, n.1
[US] J. Corbin Cave Man 321: I’ll advance you a few hundred on your ice bill.
at ice, n.1
[US] J. Corbin Cave Man 319: What I want to know is what’s all this monkey tricks in the Street?
at monkey tricks, n.
[US] J. Corbin Cave Man 14: I once heard a ticket chopper in the Subway call a gang of undergraduates ‘rah-rah boys’.
at rah-rah, adj.
[US] John Corbin Cave Man 83: Say, you’re a slick one!
at slick, adj.
[US] J. Corbin Cave Man 232: A duhrty trick, a sthinkin’ Irish trick.
at stinking, adj.1
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