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Taking Chances choose

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[US] C.L. Cullen Taking Chances 108: Get an ace down on Rolling Boer for me.
at ace, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Taking Chances 75: ‘D’je play that one?’ inquired red beak Jim [...] ‘Ask my aunt,’ growled the main guy.
at ask my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Taking Chances 53: It’s a cake-walk fo’ dat baby.
at cakewalk, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Taking Chances 22: She’s got a show for the big end of it.
at end, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Taking Chances 71: Let a kid take care o’ your two goats.
at goat, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen Taking Chances 238: This Harp from Connemara.
at harp, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen Taking Chances 8: They had just pulled off a swell hog-killing up in Toronto and had two or three thousand each in their clothes.
at hog-killing (n.) under hog, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Taking Chances 138: He had it in every pocket. Said I to him: ‘D’ye remember that neat 100 to 1 thing you pulled off in Washington.’.
at it, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen Taking Chances 53: This nag [...] was sold as an N.G. last year.
at n.g., n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Taking Chances 240: Of all the niggering out I ever saw [...] this is the worst.
at nigger out (v.) under nigger, n.1
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