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American Dream Girl choose

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[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Slouch’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 101: Everything went along jake for a while.
at jake, adv.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Slouch’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 103: Why, I can’t even remember the jerk town she came from.
at jerk town, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Slouch’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 104: I took my kid brother along.
at kid, adj.1
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Slouch’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 102: One of ’em was some loogin who had a wife, but the wife’s gone away.
at loogan, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Slouch’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 97: He was always togged out in the nobbiest clothes [...] no one wore louder ties.
at nobby, adj.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Slouch’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 101: Christ, he was pooped all the time [...] Only she wouldn’t have pooped me like she did Val. I never met the girl who could poop me.
at poop, v.3
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Slouch’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 102: She soaks me for fifty bucks I was savin’ up for the wedding bells.
at soak, v.1
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘A Misunderstanding’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 5: We had our little spats.
at spat, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Slouch’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 97: He was always togged out in the nobbiest clothes.
at togged out (to the nines) (adj.) under togged, adj.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Willie Collins’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 214: He might even give an instructive talk [...] that would make an impression on the bigwigs and the high muckety-mucks of the Company.
at muck-a-muck, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 195: ‘Adam ’n Eve on a raft. Wreck ’em ... an’ a Combinashun!’ Milly, the shapely waitress, shouted in a coarse voice.
at Adam and Eve, n.1
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 203: Nervous, my ass hole!
at my arsehole! (excl.) under arsehole, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 201: She’s always pullin’ that cute little baby-doll stunt on him.
at baby-doll (n.) under baby, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 196: ‘Say, Bad News,’ Billy said. ‘This is feedin’ time, and now work will ruin my digestion, play hell with my liver [...] So, please!’.
at bad news, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 197: He may be nothin’ but a measly foul ball, but he’s got your number.
at foul ball, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 197: ‘That barrel, uh ...’ growled Porky.
at barrel, n.1
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 200: He gets sore as blazes.
at blazes, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 197: Never mind blowin’ off. You know goddam well he’s got your number.
at blow off, v.2
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 198: ‘Don’t break yourself,’ Mike said.
at break, v.1
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 196: He told himself that if she bent over near his table he could see her breastworks.
at breastworks, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 197: Mac’s told everybody in the company how he’s always been able to buffalo you.
at buffalo, v.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Yellow Streak’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 259: In those days, cake-eaters were wearing bell-bottomed trousers.
at cake-eater (n.) under cake, n.1
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 199: If you ever dared to open your pay envelope, Flow would break every dish in your house on that coconut of yours.
at coconut, n.1
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 195: ‘Adam ’n Eve on a raft. Wreck ’em ... an’ a Combinashun!’ Milly, the shapely waitress, shouted in a coarse voice.
at combination, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘The Fastest Runner’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 16: Kid, you run de fastest, I fight de best in de whole school. We make a crack-up team.
at crack, adj.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘The Fastest Runner’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 24: Suddenly, Tony shouted: ‘Dark clouds’.
at dark cloud (n.) under dark, adj.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 197: Well, who ever told you that fairytale?
at fairy-story (n.) under fairy, n.1
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 197: Say, if he ever got into a fight with anybody at all, he wouldn’t have the chances of a fart in a windstorm.
at not a fart’s chance in a windstorm under fart, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Summer Tryout’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 56: A frazzled audience left the theater, talking, discussing, protesting, and attacking the play.
at frazzled, adj.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 196: This is feedin’ time, and now work will ruin my digestion, play hell with my liver.
at play (merry) hell with (v.) under hell, n.
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