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[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ Elephant Club 163: A head of hair which the youth of America are accustomed to designate as a ‘brick-top’.
at bricktop (n.) under brick, n.
[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ Elephant Club 29: I took the dollar from my pocket, and passed it to the ticket-seller ... and putting his physiognomy before the seven by nine aperture through which the money goes in and the pasteboard comes out.
at pasteboard, n.
[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ Elephant Club 244: Judge – ‘Have you got ten dollars?’ Mr. W. – ‘’Tis true, I hain’t a red.’.
at red, n.
[US] ‘Q.K. Philander Doesticks’ Elephant Club 258: It may be reasonably supposed that his success has excited the envy of the ‘shysters’; for [...] they have to sit oftentimes a whole morning beside their respective columns at the Tombs, without being called upon to defend a case.
at shyster, n.
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