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[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 465: ‘Get out of this!’ cried the officer, swinging his club. ‘I’ll give you a bat on the sconce.’.
at bat, n.2
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 512: I’m ‘broke’ now.
at broke, adj.1
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie Ch. xxii: In the meanwhile Hurstwood encountered a humorous item concerning a stranger who had arrived in the city and became entangled with a bunco-steerer.
at bunco steerer (n.) under bunco, n.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 60: He really expected to hear the common, ‘Aw! Go chase yourself!’ in return.
at go chase yourself! (excl.) under chase, v.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 173: I’ve often thought you’d make a corking good actress.
at corking, adj.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 153: They had come out of the lobby and made their way through the showy crush about the entrance.
at crush, n.1
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 42: Hello. You’re a daisy.
at daisy, n.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 95: Eddie Fahrway’s got a new steam launch [...] He says it’s a dandy.
at dandy, n.2
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 168: ‘I tell you,’ said another drummer to him, ‘it’s a great thing.’.
at drummer, n.3
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 404: Like the morphine fiend, he was becoming addicted to his ease.
at fiend, n.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 65: George! but I’m glad to see you again.
at by George! (excl.) under George, n.2
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 199: All you need is a little more ginger.
at ginger, n.1
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 72: A truly deep-dyed villain could have hornswaggled him as readily as he could have flattered a pretty shop-girl.
at hornswoggle, v.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 257: Damn her! [...] I’ll make it hot for her if she causes trouble.
at hot, adj.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 148: ‘How did you come out with that La Crosse man you were telling me about?’ ‘Oh, fine; sold him a complete line.’.
at sell a line (v.) under line , n.1
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 528: They put on a lot of lugs here, don’t they?
at put on lugs (v.) under lugs, n.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 477: I don’t like the actors in our company [...] They’re all struck on themselves.
at struck on, adj.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 72: A Madame Sappho would have called him a pig.
at pig, n.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 42: ‘Aw, let me go,’ she exclaimed angrily. ‘Duffer.’ He only grinned broadly in return. ‘Rubber!’ he called back.
at rubberneck, n.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 466: ‘Ah, you scab, you!’ yelled the crowd. ‘You coward! Steal a man’s job, will you?’.
at scab, n.1
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 465: ‘Get out of this!’ cried the officer, swinging his club. ‘I’ll give you a bat on the sconce.’.
at sconce, n.1
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 148: There was another fellow there, representing Burnstein, a regular hook-nosed sheeny.
at sheeny, n.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 119: He began to ‘size up’ Drouet from the standpoint of wit and fascination.
at size (up), v.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 472: You’d better sneak.
at sneak, v.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 79: ‘That’s the thing,’ he said.
at thing, the, n.
[US] T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 105: The finest resort in town. It’s a way-up, swell place.
at way-up, adj.
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