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[US] C. Crewdson Tales of the Road 142: I had been a stock boy for a kyke house and they put me out in Colorado.
at kike, adj.
[US] (con. 1930s) M. Graham Tales of the Iron Road 3: There were frightening memories of the ‘bulls,’ the brutal, sadistic railroad police.
at bull, n.5
[US] (con. 1930s) Maury Graham Tales of the Iron Road 3: Memories of the adventures I’d experienced through years of traveling the ‘high iron’ washed over me.
at high iron (n.) under high, adj.1
[US] (con. 1930s) M. Graham Tales of the Iron Road 3: Waiting for that time when they would hear the call of the ‘Westbound,’ the hobo’s lingo for death.
at Westbound, the (n.) under west, adj.
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