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[US] W. Gresham Monster Midway (1954) 3: Cake cutting: short changing.
at cake cutter (n.) under cake, n.1
[US] W. Gresham Monster Midway (1954) 223: Stunt drivers all seem to suffer from a common mishap—getting their front teeth banged out. Most of them wear ‘china clippers’.
at china clippers (n.) under China, n.
[US] W. Gresham Monster Midway (1954) 3: Cowboy: an obstreperous lout.
at cowboy, n.
[US] W. Gresham Monster Midway (1954) 162: These are ‘walk-throughs,’ sometimes ‘grind shows’ in which the ticket seller grinds out over and over a sales talk on the exhibits inside.
at grind show (n.) under grind, n.
[US] W. Gresham Monster Midway (1954) 4: ‘To prat the mark in’ means to jostle him into a favorable position.
at prat someone in (v.) under prat, v.2
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