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[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 56: For the first couple of nites no one gave a tinker’s-damn about Lorry.
at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 54: A big guy, who was aces high fightin’ micks.
at ace-high, adj.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 139: In the evenings when he got home he was all in.
at all in, adj.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 17: He knew how hard she worked for her piece of bread and butter.
at bread and butter, n.1
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 145: Well, ole Moose [...] wasn’t as hot on running that ape-head up on the bid.
at apehead (n.) under ape, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 65: Mush Tate was argufying with Prunes, Shrimp, Spunk, and all the goulashes. [Ibid.] 75: He was the champeen argufier of the home.
at argufy, v.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 211: One guy [...] who was a little more hardboiled that the rest said the whole Y.M.C.A. outfit could kiss his ass.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 195: The freight was tied up in that union pacific asshole of a place.
at asshole, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 266: ‘Good mawnin’’ said the warden, / ‘Merry Christmas to yuse alls,’ / And as he passed back up the aisle, / The prisoners answered, ‘Ba-aals!’.
at balls!, excl.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 209: He heard a small rap at the door [...] It came again; balls, could that soused Swede have followed him, or rung a police alarm.
at balls!, excl.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 51: The teacher was a tall, thin, straight-up-and-down sort of dry beanpole.
at beanpole, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 261: Then there came a biffing at the door.
at biff, n.1
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 271: The scalding water, almost burning out the pimples on his lean back, Max Maxwell let out a bitchin’ oath.
at bitching, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 148: Now, bitchin’ fool, pay fer me!
at bitching, adj.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 250: He spent much of his time sitting against the brass railings going down the front stone steps of the Y., where he could blah with a newsie or watch a well-turned leg.
at blah, v.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 105: He made him [...] ask for a pair of specs so that he could blink straight.
at blink, v.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 189: That’s what one gets ridin’ the blinds, boeing about. [Ibid.] 206: How long had he been boeing, it appeared ages.
at bo, v.1
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 226: Jeremy used to [...] chortle out loud to himself; whenever he remembered how farmer Lawrence got high blood pressure and boo-hooed till it seemed he was going to bust, because Jeremy had given his pony that name.
at boohoo, v.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 206: He walked into a combination boozing joint and dance hall.
at booze crib (n.) under booze, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 75: A pal of his ran in and told him Mush Tate was shootin’ the bull and heavy too.
at shoot the bull (v.) under bull, n.6
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 135: At this the two coons almost busted.
at bust, v.1
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 104: That ball player slung his bat all the way from the plate to the pitcher, getting him rite on the charley-horse.
at charley horse, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 264: Red Rufus, who had dropped out of the klondike three and a half berries in the hole and wasn’t much on listening to David’s chaw.
at chaw, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 18: He was sometimes a pimp, always a chippie-chaser. He [...] affected the airs of a dude about town.
at chippie-chaser (n.) under chippie, n.1
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 191: It sounded like the heavy clodhoppers of a cop.
at clodhopper, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 272: Lorry felt he was cooked for sure this time, but could see no way out.
at cooked, adj.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 96: Prunes copped some axlegrease from the gardener’s stable.
at cop, v.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 144: Skinny, who had cowpunched and played yukon in Cheyenne.
at cow-puncher, n.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 211: He hadn’t been in the army for nuthin’; not paid half his government check for the krappy cigarettes them social secs. palmed off on the fellas in the trenches.
at crappy, adj.
[US] E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 73: Two days later a d.t. brought back Mush Tate; a bull had caught him on a M.K.T. freight headin’ for Chi.
at d.t., n.
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