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[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 6: All I can see is Theodore, the colored gardener, walking across lots with a sack of flour on his back!
at across lots, phr.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 10: It’s no secret conclave of the Anvil Association when I whisper them wise.
at anvil chorus, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 2: As the Benzine Buggy was about to fall upon the quarreling man and wife Uncle Gilbert squeezed a couple of hoarse ‘Toot toots’ from the horn.
at benzine buggy, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 9: I had sneezed myself into a condition of pale blue profanity.
at blue, adj.3
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 1: We're not a couple of Patsys with the pumps! We can learn enough in two lessons to make good in this Boob community.
at boob, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 7: That’s our cue to grab a choo-choo and breeze out to Uncle Peter Grant's farm and bungalow in the wilds of Westchester.
at breeze, v.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry 44: Then the Buzz Buggy turned around and barked at them, and with an excited wag of its tail scooted for home.
at buzz buggy (n.) under buzz, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 1: Into the next room came Alice and Peaches and sat down for their usual cackle.
at cackle, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 6: The proper and up-to-date caper in connection with taking snap-shots these days is to buy a developing outfit.
at caper, n.2
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 1: In the meantime Bunch and I had passed away. ‘It's [i.e. a plan to take Tango lessons] cold turkey,’ I whispered.
at cold turkey, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 1: Mr. Schwartz has a fad for collecting apartment houses. He owns the largest assortment of People Coops in the city.
at coop, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry Ch. 5: Stevie rubbered acrobatically with the result that he upset a glass of ice water down the waiter’s neck [...] It cost me a dollar to bring the dish-dragger back to earth.
at dish-dragger (n.) under dish, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 7: The old Dutch had her eye on Herman Schulz, and finally married him.
at Dutch, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 8: Teddy talks slang something fierce.
at fierce, adv.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 10: Say! did you ever stray away from home of an evening and go to one of those parlor riots?
at fight, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 3: It never struck me that I had to take a course in French before entering the Builtfast hunger foundry.
at foundry, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 1: You can always count on Bunch having a few freak ideas in the belfry where he keeps his butterflies.
at freak, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 8: I’m a slob on that auction bridge thing [...] but I’ll do the advice gag if it chokes me.
at gag, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 5: Dike carefully closed one eye and focussed the other on her. [...] Then he turned the open gig-lamp on me and began again.
at gig-lamps, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 4: When Hep got a flash of these two his goat kicked down the door of its box-stall and began cavorting all over the Western Hemisphere.
at goat, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 1: His capacity for storing away free liquids was awe-inspiring and a sin. [...] Nobody ever saw Ikey at high tide.
at high tide (n.) under high, adj.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 1: His capacity for storing away free liquids was awe-inspiring and a sin. I think Ikey must have been hollow from the neck to the ankles.
at hollow-legged, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry Ch. 1: Are you James to the possibilities?
at james (to), adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 3: Say, Mike! [...] tip us off to a quiet bunch of eating that will fit a couple of appetites just out seeing the sights.
at Mike, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 1: It seemed to me that a hundred iron men in advance was a nifty little price for two lessons.
at nifty, adj.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 3: A perpetual reception committee to a frowsy-headed Slavonian exile demanding $35 per and nix on the washing.
at nix, adv.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 1: We're not a couple of Patsys with the pumps! We can learn enough in two lessons to make good in this Boob community.
at patsy, n.1
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 5: He [...] hikes for a pickle parlor and begins to festoon his system with hops.
at pickle parlor (n.) under pickle, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 9: The good old pill-pusher threw his saws behind the sofa [...] and took a fall out of my pulse.
at pill-pusher (n.) under pill, n.
[US] ‘Hugh McHugh’ You Should Worry cap. 1: Not one of this push out here knows a thing about the Tango.
at push, n.
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