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Robbers’ Roost choose

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[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 244: Look at ’em. I could almost bore one already.
at bore, v.1
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 81: Wal, now I’ll brace the boss.
at brace, v.
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 218: Wal, you coppered it with the ace.
at copper, v.1
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 120: Dinged if I know.
at dinged, adj.
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 209: When he made the divvy hyar he give me his share of thet sixteen thousand.
at divvy, n.1
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 158: Hank shore is a queer duck, takin’ up with strangers like he does.
at duck, n.1
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 210: ‘What’s all this grab?’ he demanded.
at grab, n.1
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 142: I’m only a wandering rider—a gunslinger and—a member of a gang of robbers.
at gun-slinger, n.
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 22: He’s a gun-thrower himself [...] He’s done for I don’t know how many ambitious-to-be-killers. [Ibid.] 82: Both Slocum and Lincoln are sort of touchy about gun-throwing, aren’t they?
at gun-thrower (n.) under gun, n.1
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 9: Wal now, whatinhell is this fussy old geezer about?
at what in hell...?, phr.
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 144: ‘Now, boss, there’re the cards face down, an’ you can like them or lump them.’ ‘I’m lumpin’ them, Smoky Slocum … .’.
at like it or lump it (v.) under lump, v.1
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 236: Say, it’s you who’ll shet his trap [...] Or you’ll git a dose of medicine.
at medicine, n.
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 38: We’re mozyin’ along.
at mosey, v.
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 106: She said: ‘So Bernie Herrick sent a desperado to be my escort? How perfectly rippin!’.
at ripping, adj.
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 211: Mebbe we can slick it over.
at slick, v.
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 231: Hays, that’s your last morning’s stretch . . . Before this day’s done you’ll stretch forever!
at stretch, v.
[US] Z. Grey Robbers’ Roost 20: Any strings on a loan?
at string, n.
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