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The Landloper choose

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[US] H.F. Day Landloper 33: ‘I don’t know what you are chewing about,’ sneered the fat man.
at chew, v.
[US] H.F. Day Landloper 33: Because I do not patter the flash lingo with you, you appear to take me for a college professor in disguise.
at patter (the) flash (v.) under flash, n.1
[US] H.F. Day Landloper 37: They had a gink in a padded cell in the jail.
at gink, n.1
[US] H.F. Day Landloper 34: Some hand-out gump and a train to jump.
at gump, n.2
[US] H.F. Day Landloper 33: Have you [...] beaten the face off the Katy Shack when he tried to pitch you off a gondola-car?
at Katy, n.
[US] H.F. Day Landloper 33: Have you ever hit the sage-brush trail, hiked the milk-and-honey route from Ogden through the Mormon country [...] Hey?
at milk and honey route (n.) under milk, n.
[US] H.F. Day Landloper 31: ‘A moucher,’ observed the man by the fire.
at moocher, n.
[US] H.F. Day Landloper 32: You’re one of these college dudes out on the road getting stuff to write into a book [...] you’re putting slush all over the profesh. Quit it and go back to college.
at slush, n.1
[US] H.F. Day Landloper 33: You are not a real tramp. You are a bum, a loafer, a yeg.
at yegg, n.
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