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Shorty McCabe 8: Course, there’s times when I finds myself up against it.at up against, phr.
Shorty McCabe 8: Course, there’s times when I finds myself up against it. Shorty McCabe 87: I don’t know what I said next, but it didn’t matter much. He was too far up in the air to hear anything in particular.at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
Shorty McCabe 44: Well, this one was about half Melba’s size, but for shape and color she had her stung to a whisper; and as for wardrobe, she had it all on.at have it all on, v.
Shorty McCabe 213: But it was a case of being off the alley again. Say, I’m glad I wasn’t backin’ my guesses with good money that night, or I’d come home with my pockets wrong side out.at off the alley (adj.) under alley, n.3
Shorty McCabe 10: How does it [i.e. a patent medicine] go as a substitute for beef and?at beef and, n.
Shorty McCabe 25: The old man had routed Ase Homer out by the time we got there, and they was havin’ it hot and heavy.at hot and heavy, phr.
Shorty McCabe 189: He didn’t want much for a starter just [...] a mere matter of ten million francs. ‘No Jims nor Joes?’ says I. ‘The Baron is accustomed to reckoning in francs,’ says Pinckney.at jim and joe, n.
Shorty McCabe 7: How’re they runnin’, eh?at how are they stacking up?, phr.
Shorty McCabe 160: I was just side-steppin’ to make room for some upholstered old battle-ax that I supposed owned the rig.at battle-axe, n.1
Shorty McCabe 260: ‘Oh, there’s the Dixie Girl!’ says she. ‘You must have ’em bad,’ says I. ‘I don’t see any girl.’.at have them bad (v.) under bad, adj.
Shorty McCabe 65: I’ll have to run around to a three ball exchange and see if I can’t dig up an outfit.at three balls, n.
Shorty McCabe 162: ‘He left a barrel, then?’ ‘A cellarful,’ says Sadie.at barrel, n.1
Shorty McCabe 59: Just an open-and-shut piece of battiness, same as fellers have when they jump a bridge.at battiness (n.) under batty, adj.1
Shorty McCabe 38: I called him Blue Beak for short. [...] It wasn’t just red, nor purple. It was as near blue as a nose can get.at beak, n.2
Shorty McCabe 201: I had a lithograph of Buddy and his beanery tip goin’ up against an argument like that.at beanery, n.
Shorty McCabe 127: First comes me and Pinckney, in running gear; then Rajah, hoofing along at our heels, [...] and after him Goggles, with the benzine wagon. [Ibid.] 132: We didn’t find any horses inside, anyway, only seven different kinds of gasoline carts. [Ibid.] 159: I sees a goggle-capped tiger throw open the door of one of them plate-glass benzine broughams.at benzine buggy, n.
Shorty McCabe 138: When it comes to doing the hair-trigger friendship act, Pinckney’s the real skookum preferred. But this was once when he slipped me a blank.at slip someone a blank (v.) under blank, n.
Shorty McCabe 154: Sorry to trouble you, but I’ve got to knock your block off.at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
Shorty McCabe 103: ‘Hi’ll write to the bloomin’ pypers habout it if you do,’ says I.at blooming, adj.1
Shorty McCabe 252: One of these fresh-air blow-outs that always seem like an invitation for trouble.at blow-out, n.1
Shorty McCabe 167: I said we’d make it a ’leven-o’ clock supper, after the theatre; but it must be my blow.at blow, n.3
Shorty McCabe 217: Dennis, you low-county bog-trotter.at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
Shorty McCabe 177: She just slumped into her corner and switched on the boo-hoos.at boo-hoo, n.
Shorty McCabe 178: No, I ain’t goin’ into the boostin’ line as a reg’lar thing.at boost, v.1
Shorty McCabe 161: It was to lick a feller who’d yelled ‘brick-top’ after Sadie that started me to takin’ my first boxin’ lessons.at bricktop (n.) under brick, n.
Shorty McCabe 46: This fairy might have seen seventeen summers [...] but she was no antique. [...] She was a regular Casino broiler.at broiler, n.
Shorty McCabe 288: I sees one of them big bay-windowed bubbles slidin’ past like a train of cars.at bubble, n.2
Shorty McCabe 106: If I could have had that young bug-ward doctor to myself for about ten minutes well, he’d have learned something they didn’t tell him at Bellevue.at bug ward (n.) under bug, n.4
Shorty McCabe 57: First they went bug-eyed.at bug-eyed, adj.
Shorty McCabe 98: I couldn’t see the use of monkeyin’ with that bug-house boarder.at bughouse, adj.1
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