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[US] (con. 1877) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 58: The gentleman friend of a Cyprian beauty of the town tried the ancient badger-game on Wes.
at badger game (n.) under badger, n.1
[US] (con. 1877) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 58: The gentleman friend of a Cyprian beauty of the town tried the ancient badger-game on Wes [...] the ‘badgerer,’ gun in hand, grinned.
at badger, v.
[US] (con. 1880s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 216: Sizing up the two men, the canny bettor put his stack of blues on the long-haired ex-marshal.
at blue, n.1
[US] (con. 1880s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 241: Boys, we’ve hit the damn’ bonanza!
at bonanza, n.
[US] E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 189: The worst old ‘briar-breaker’ in Kimble County.
at briar-breaker (n.) under briar, n.
[US] (con. 1868) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 37: He had the name of a dangerous man to cross [...] Nobody ‘called’ him.
at call, v.
[US] (con. 1870s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 58: A roaring big canvasman of the John Robinson show ‘chose’ Wes at Horn HiIl [...] He ‘slapped leather’ with the canvasman and left him dead.
at choose (out), v.
[US] (con. 1880s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 227: He had cut stick for the Bend.
at cut (one’s) stick(s), v.
[US] (con. 1870s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 56: His sack coat [...] covered the ‘cutter’s bulge’.
at cutter, n.2
[US] (con. 1877) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 58: The gentleman friend of a Cyprian beauty of the town tried the ancient badger-game on Wes.
at Cyprian, adj.
[US] (con. 1880s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 241: Sam, you and Davis go shake down the passengers.
at shake down, v.
[US] (con. 1880s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 227: He rode up and ‘threw down’ on the wanted man.
at throw down on (v.) under throw down, v.
[US] (con. 1870s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 52: A sort of harness, which came up to protect the neck and permitted him to take that long drop.
at drop, n.1
[US] (con. 1870s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 61: The Indians were levying a tax of ten cents a head on all cattle crossing The Nation [...] It was decided to tell the feather-dusters where to go.
at feather duster (n.) under feather, n.
[US] E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 204: They claim that they knew many a gun-sharp the equal of Wild Bill Hickok.
at gun-sharp (n.) under gun, n.1
[US] (con. 1870s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 53: Hardin, his rival in the Smoky Seventies for top-honours at gun-slinging.
at gun-slinger, n.
[US] (con. 1870s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 49: It seemed impossible that the quiet, fiddling, likeable Jackson could be this lightning gunfighter [...] the hell-roaring Bill Longley.
at hell-roaring (adj.) under hell, n.
[US] (con. 1870s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 59: The Sabine River they found ‘on a high lonesome,’ as the punchers say.
at high lonesome, n.
[US] (con. 1870s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 55: I’ll buy Old Peacemaker, here, from Rufe [...] Forty, gold, for the hogley [sic].
at hogleg, n.
[US] (con. 1858) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 20: Man! but he’s a lightning gunfighter. [Ibid.] 49: It seemed impossible that the quiet, fiddling, likeable Jackson could be this lightning gunfighter.
at lightning, adj.
[US] (con. 1901) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 331: Horn was notorious for ‘lone wolfing it’.
at lone wolf, v.
[US] (con. 1870s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 55: I’ll buy Old Peacemaker, here, from Rufe.
at peacemaker (n.) under peace, n.
[US] (con. 1880s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 239: ‘Throw up your props!’ he commanded.
at prop, n.2
[US] (con. 1880s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 209: Nor was it so simple as ‘rattling their hocks’ out of the American Valley.
at rattle, v.
[US] (con. 1880s) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 216: Hell! he was a ring-tail’ whizzer with red striped wheels!
at ringtailed snorter, n.
[US] E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 86: In 1880 Tombstone was at the height of her boom. She was a rooting-tooting all-night town.
at rooting-tooting, adj.
[US] (con. late 19C) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 375: We’ll go out and borrow a Bible – two Bibles – a dozen Bibles! And I’ll swear on all that stack.
at swear on a stack of Bibles (a mile high) (v.) under swear, v.
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