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[US] Everybody’s Mag. 11 797/2: ‘The best thing for old fellows like us to do is to keep bending our elbows’ — by which he meant, to keep on drinking.
at bend one’s elbow (v.) under bend, v.1
[US] Everybody’s Mag. 21 756: But you and me, Pa, ’ll never put on agony for nobody.
at put on agony (v.) under agony, n.
[US] Everybody’s Mag. 21 44: He's either dumb or got a button loose somewhere. Won't talk.
at button short, a (adj.) under button, n.1
[US] Everybody’s Mag. 22 647: Getting the rope at a Lobster Palace is much like ‘getting the hook’ on amateur night at a music hall. It makes a person feel unutterably cheap, and ‘cheap’ is a word that gives Lobster Palace Society the horrors. Spend money! That is the cry.
at lobster-palace society (n.) under lobster, n.1
[US] Everybody’s Mag. 27 797/2: His course was directed to Otto’s beer-joint on Eighth Avenue.
at beer joint (n.) under beer, n.
[US] F. Norris in Everybody’s mag 31 682/1: ‘Say, this is big-league stuff!’ called Sidwell from the easel. ‘Old Andrew has put it across and nailed it there, Fred. This stuff is ace.’.
at big-league, adj.
[US] Everybody’s Mag. 31 276/2: Officers discovered that the broad strip of braid forming the binding of the edges contained something that felt like sawdust, and on ripping this open poured out a full ounce of the ‘happy dust’ — about one thousand average doses.
at happy dust (n.) under happy, adj.
[US] Everybody’s Mag. June 69/2: He’ll be one of us in spite of hell and high water.
at hell or high water, n.
[US] Everybody’s Mag. June 698/1: They bunted us dizzy, ran the bases hog-wild, and turned the game into a hippodrome before the inning was over [DA].
at hippodrome, n.
[US] Everybody’s Mag. 56 65/1: Gravy whirls, lashes out with her hind feet and [...] knocks him tail over teakettle.
at arse/ass over teakettle under arse, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘West Goes South’ in Everybody’s Oct. 🌐 One enraged cow-banger coyly remarks that, if we don’t do some speedy explaining, he’ll come down and give us a reproduction of ‘Custer’s last stand’.
at cow-banger (n.) under cow, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘West Goes South’ in Everybody’s Oct. 🌐 ‘For cripes sake, kid,’ yelps Sweeney, ‘come to the point!’.
at for cripes’ sake!, excl.
[US] T. Thursday ‘West Goes South’ in Everybody’s Oct. 🌐 We’ll drain this drum when we get damn good and ready.
at drum, n.3
[US] T. Thursday ‘West Goes South’ in Everybody’s Oct. 🌐 A hawk-nosed gent alights from the bus, and [...] flatfoots into our office.
at flatfoot, v.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘West Goes South’ in Everybody’s Oct. 🌐 Do we look like a coupla gyps?
at gyp, n.1
[US] Everybody’s Mag. 56 125: ‘Hot dog!’ Wilde ejaculated. ‘Quit it!’ ‘Aw, pull your head in,’ Nelson replied.
at pull your head in! (excl.) under head, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘West Goes South’ in Everybody’s Oct. 🌐 Sweeney used to be a press-agent for a small mud-show.
at mud show (n.) under mud, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘West Goes South’ in Everybody’s Oct. 🌐 Well, we been trying to get a firm in Tampa to come over and start work, but they’re so busy they keep stalling us off.
at stall off, v.
[US] T. Thursday ‘West Goes South’ in Everybody’s Oct. 🌐 Wal, s’long, hombres—I’m gointa take a pike at Miami.
at pike, n.3
[US] T. Thursday ‘And Howe’ in Everybody’s Feb. 🌐 ‘Book be blowed!’ I snaps.
at be-blowed!, excl.
[US] T. Thursday ‘And Howe’ in Everybody’s Feb. 🌐 That bindle stiff [...] just give me a load of lip and departed hence.
at bindle stiff (n.) under bindle, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘And Howe’ in Everybody’s Feb. 🌐 Ain’t I read hundreds of fiction stories where the blowhard turned out to be a flat tire.
at flat tyre (n.) under flat, adj.3
[US] T. Thursday ‘And Howe’ in Everybody’s Feb. 🌐 That gil you wished on me would of been okay lecturing at Yale and Harvard.
at gill, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘And Howe’ in Everybody’s Feb. 🌐 ‘Here’s the goo,’ I says. ‘Take it home and study it for a hour or so.’ [Ibid.] I stepped to the front and unwound a fair line of assorted goo-ga.
at goo, n.1
[US] T. Thursday ‘And Howe’ in Everybody’s Feb. 🌐 Once upon a time a snappy old hombre named George Bernard Shaw [...] proceeded to dash off the following load of horse feathers.
at horsefeathers, n.
[US] T. Thursday ‘And Howe’ in Everybody’s Feb. [Internet] I gave orders to the boys to slam the Chinese gazinka — the gong.
at -iz-, infix
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