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Tales of the Ex-Tanks choose

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[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 211: I took a few then and there before breakfast.
at few, a, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 130: I’m just throwing it into him a few to sort o’ square up a personal grievance.
at few, a, adv.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 117: It ain’t no cinch, but what you’d turn a trick with the wedge and the phony keys at that.
at turn a trick, v.1
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 47: With $420 I could be an ace and get a start out in the Town of the Wind.
at ace, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 49: It was a sober act for the rest of my stay.
at act, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 194: I concluded to have one more whack at the ring on an air-tight good thing.
at airtight, adj.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 45: All the tall chap was good for was to take punishment, and he could beat any mixed-aler at that that I ever saw.
at mixed-ale oration, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 119: The Sergeant socked it to the cop for being a pinhead, a lightweight, and an in-and-outer.
at in-and-outer, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 69: I had [...] a straight aqua record of four months behind me.
at aqua, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 279: When we go outside the barber shop my pal struck an attitude.
at attitude, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 293: It was great, that pint, too, but the first was the ever-memorable baby.
at baby, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 48: His pals threw it into him about being a chaw-bacon and a would-be welcher and he subsided.
at chaw-bacon, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 340: All of them won, which put the bank a bit over $12,000 to the bad.
at to the bad under bad, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 137: I tripped in going on [stage], which was a kind of a bad break.
at bad break (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 45: The squat man [...] made a punching bag of the lanky chap from the start.
at punching bag, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 307: Yees must ha’ made up yees moinds at wan an’ th’ same toime t’ bale yeezselves out.
at bail out, v.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 91: That knocked all my pipe-dreams of [...] distributing backsheesh among the natives.
at baksheesh, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 25: Well, the same three-balls outfit got the ring and pin.
at three balls, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 64: The Girardin House, one of the bang-up hotels of Galveston.
at bang-up, adj.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 230: I struck the Barbary Coast of ’Frisco.
at Barbary Coast, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 301: Then I resumed my barking for Fatima.
at bark, v.2
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 43: The barkeep looked at me as if he thought I had been stacking up too long against a barrel house.
at barrelhouse, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 345: It would be poetic retribution if we could [...] bat the bank of the man who fired you.
at bat, v.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 351: This is too much of the batter for you to have on you all at one and the same time, Tommy.
at batter, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 88: Who wants to listen to a lot o’ slush [...] it sounds too much like beery ballads from the go-off.
at beery (adj.) under beer, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 332: I’ll take care of the cockney, if he makes any belch.
at belch, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 89: I had enough to get back here with bells on inside of a couple of months.
at with bells on under bell, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 43: Hey, Bill [...] just shoot us out to the fight, will you?
at Bill, n.
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 198: They [i.e. sailors] were all loaded for snowbirds.
at snow bird, n.1
[US] C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 89: They let me have ’em for one dollar (eight bits, they call it out there) apiece.
at bit, n.1
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