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[US] W. De Vere ‘Roger’ Tramp Poems 17: We’d [...] closed up the shanty all hunk.
at all hunk, adj.
[US] W. De Vere ‘A Black Hills Sermon’ Tramp Poems 24: He got up a blow-out and shindy, and everything went off slam bang.
at slam-bang, adv.
[US] W. De Vere ‘Jim Marshall’s New Pianner’ Tramp Poems 8: Walt Fletcher, a darned lively cuss, as funny and as frisky, Who at the best done nothing wuss than punish barb-wire whisky.
at barbed wire, n.1
[US] W. De Vere ‘Jim Marshall’s New Pianner’ Tramp Poems 9: He landed one beneath his belt.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[US] W. De Vere ‘Jim Marshall’s New Pianner’ Tramp Poems 9: He landed one beneath his belt, just like a mornin’ bracer, And then another followed suit, wo’t Lish Row’d call ‘a chaser’.
at bracer, n.1
[US] W. De Vere ‘Jim Marshall’s New Pianner’ Tramp Poems 9: He landed one beneath his belt, just like a mornin’ bracer, / And then another followed suit, wo’t Lish Row’d call ‘a chaser’.
at chaser, n.1
[US] W. De Vere ‘Hey Rube’ Tramp Poems 88: When e’er a circus comes your way, And you are spilein’ for ‘clim,’ Be sure they haven’t learned to sing ‘Hey Rube’.
at clem, n.
[US] W. De Vere ‘A Black Hills Sermon’ Tramp Poems 25: I don’t mind telling you cold, pard, you’re yarn isn’t on the dead square.
at cold, adv.
[US] W. De Vere ‘A Black Hills Sermon’ Tramp Poems 21: I’ve fetched up with the ‘Webfeet’ way down here on old Puget Sound.
at fetch up, v.
[US] W. De Vere ‘A Black Hills Sermon’ Tramp Poems 21: I’ve fetched up with the ‘Webfeet’ way down here on old Puget Sound.
at web-foot, n.
[US] W. De Vere ‘Roger’ Tramp Poems 17: Grubbin’ like blazes to keep up His end, in some cursed hard times.
at grub, v.1
[US] W. De Vere ‘That Beautiful Snow’ Tramp Poems 78: Your overcoat ‘hocked,’ not a cent in your ‘kick’.
at hock, v.1
[US] W. De Vere ‘Jim Marshall’s New Pianner’ Tramp Poems 9: He hit them ivories.
at ivory, n.
[US] W. De Vere ‘Jim Marshall’s New Pianner’ Tramp Poems 8: We turned out to celebrate its advent, with a jag on.
at jag, n.1
[US] W. De Vere ‘Hey Rube’ Tramp Poems 87: The ‘main guy’ winked.
at main guy (n.) under main, adj.
[US] W. De Vere ‘An Angel’s Visit’ Tramp Poems 35: Here’s five ‘plunkers’ cold.
at plunk, n.
[US] W. De Vere ‘A Black Hills Sermon’ Tramp Poems 24: He bought him the best sheeney suit of new clothes.
at sheeny, adj.
[US] W. De Vere ‘A Black Hills Sermon’ Tramp Poems 23: They played the thing up to the limit, and took in each snoozer and bloke.
at snoozer, n.1
[US] W. De Vere ‘A Black Hills Sermon’ Tramp Poems 23: He had plenty of ‘stuff’ in his ‘leather’.
at stuff, n.
[US] W. De Vere ‘Jim Marshall’s New Pianner’ Tramp Poems 9: He had a sister That could play the Suannee River till ’twould knock us all a twister.
at knock a twister (v.) under twister, n.
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