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[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Dividends 74: ‘The Cap looks as busted up as if he had lost on four aces,’ for he goes about in a broken kind of a way.
at busted, adj.1
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Dividends 143: You told fairy tales.
at fairy-story (n.) under fairy, n.1
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Dividends 66: Buck Powers told me I’d be jugged if I shot at ’em.
at jug, v.1
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Dividends 68: ‘Ain’t he a stem-winder, though?’ goes on the boy. ‘He was the most popular man on the line when it was built.’.
at stem-winder, n.
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