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Tomato Can Comeback choose

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[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] The sleep I got for the next few nights wasn’t worth a plugged nickel.
at not worth a plugged nickel, phr.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] ‘Are you his manager, then?’ ‘Kolodzei,’ the toad-faced blimp said .
at blimp, n.1
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] You almost got your block knocked off tonight.
at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] He puffs hard right before he unleashes one of those bombs.
at bomb, n.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Kolodzei made a cutting motion with his hand [...] ‘Radio silence, bub’ [...] ‘You just keep those drinks comin’ bub, and I’ll tell you all kindsa stuff’.
at bub, n.3
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Who should pay a call on me in the bullpen by Tom Garrick himself.
at bullpen, n.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] My editor canned it [i.e. a fight story] when he saw who it was about. ‘Don’t clutter up my page with bums’.
at bum, n.3
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] That dirty little butterball got what was coming to him.
at butterball (n.) under butter, n.1
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] The uppercut caught him right on the button.
at button, n.1
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Tomato can being slang for a palooka who bled like a stuck pig; or got beat to a pulp.
at tomato can, n.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] February was still cold in the Motor City.
at Motor City, n.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Sharp cookie that I was, I was figuring out this guy wasn’t my biggest fan.
at smart cookie (n.) under cookie, n.1
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Crummy job [...] Kickin’ people when they’re down.
at crummy, adj.2
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] The advice was dead-on.
at dead on, adj.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Run away while you can, doughboy — justlike you did at Chosin.
at doughboy, n.1
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] I went on a drunk after the Braxton fight and was a real heel to her.
at drunk, n.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] I gritted my teeth, waiting for him to slow down and fag out.
at fagged (out), adj.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] That Garrick kid’s out with a different floozy every week.
at floozy, n.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Stick to your newspaper stories, and quit tryin’ to gum up the works.
at gum (up) the works (v.) under gum, v.2
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Save your hatchet jobs for senators from Wisconsin.
at hatchet job (n.) under hatchet, n.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] I was able to get Father Tim Brophy on the line. He sounded Irish as Paddy’s pig.
at as Irish as Paddy Murphy’s pig under Irish, adj.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] I don’t cater to sissies at my gym. They learn to tough it out.
at tough it (out), v.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Sheez, kid, how many times you gonna read that?
at jeez!, excl.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Sporting news wasn’t the same, which was why I covered the jockstraps.
at jock, n.1
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] A rtall, rough counterpuncher sometimes called ‘the Battling Leatherneck’.
at leatherneck, n.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] ‘My hand is pretty sore.’ ‘You mighta broke it on that meathead’s face’.
at meathead, n.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] By round six Hollis had a mouse over his right eye where Tom had dished out constant punishment.
at mouse, n.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] The kid is a washed up never-was who everybody took too serious for a while.
at never-was (n.) under never, adv.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Other news hounds would be running for the telephones when the referee raised Braxton’s arm in victory.
at news hawk (n.) under news, n.
[US] (con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] I stank up the ring that night. Compared to the other newsies, Mr Schwartz handled me gentle.
at newsie, n.
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