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[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 177: I never saw so many hot Scotches and Tom and Jerries.
at tom and jerry, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 95: I’m bound to say it’s a baby of a maxim for prophetic truthfulness.
at baby, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 224: ‘Now,’ I’d say to the proprietor of the ball joint, [...] ‘with regard to the number of chances.’.
at ball, n.2
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 54: I had only batted ’em a little in Cincinnati.
at bat, v.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 32: Figuring on where the engraved papers were going to come from that ’ud enable me to yank one of the bennies out of the eaves.
at benny, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 97: The man [...] had a hold on my arm that felt like that of a badged biddy of the Broadway squad. [Ibid.] 103: The biddy on the corner impaled me with his gray Milesian eye.
at biddy, n.2
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 78: You’ll be able to work me for the ride to the big town.
at big town, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 81: The old chap with the kindly blinks.
at blink, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 42: The game had begun to get blinky on the preceding night.
at blinky, adj.1
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 56: This is the real dyed-in-the-wool, blown-in-the-bottle —.
at blown-in-the-glass, adj.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 129: It is perfectly legitimate for him to back a ringer right off the boards if [...] he needs the money badly.
at off the boards (adv.) under boards, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 47: My mate was doing a neat little shadow dance [...] back of one of the South Side boozoriums. [Ibid.] I planted 235 of them around the Chicago booze emporiums.
at boozorium, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 108: He peeled me off seven of the one hundred boys.
at boy, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 44: We [...] were jogged to a truly rural wetworks further up the Boulevard. Here we had more bubbles.
at bubbly, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 16: It had been such a long, long time since I’d bucked into smells like those that they sort o’ got me around the neckband.
at buck in (v.) under buck, v.4
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 97: I can see you hunting around for raw steak for two bum lamps and a bondsman into the bargain.
at bum, adj.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 38: He had in every kick a bundle that’ud trip a white wings.
at bundle that would trip a white wings (n.) under bundle, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 98: He looked like business, all right, and so did his porter, who came on the scene just then with a mallet.
at look like business (v.) under business, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 116: I had $30 when the bust came.
at bust, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 47: I didn’t figure that it was my butt-in.
at butt-in, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 50: A two-minute buzz with the manager of the op’ry house.
at buzz, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 43: Handing me that peculiar grin of his that overswept his whole chart.
at chart, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 9: He absent-mindedly looked around the table for a chaser, after tossing off his glass of vichy and milk.
at chaser, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 88: The end of the chaw was that the old man promised to meet O’Brien in Buffalo.
at chaw, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 84: That’s an experience that’ll hold me until I cash in my last stock of whites.
at cash in one’s checks (v.) under check, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 192: There are too many cud-chewers and pants-hitchers [...] gyrating around in this —.
at chew the cud, v.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 135: Some feller that’s a good ink slinger an’ thet kin spread good chin music on paper.
at chin music, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 214: These Chinese narratives [...] that hike along from right to left and hand you an epilogue before you’ve had a chance to rubber at the preface.
at Chinese, adj.
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 131: A bunch o’ [...] ward sleuths a-pattering in the back room off a precinct clink.
at clink, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 164: The horse soldiered on me something scandalous, so that I was generally about fifteen minutes late.
at come the old soldier (v.) under come the..., v.
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