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[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 24: I didn’t know I was playing for my bread and butter.
at bread and butter, n.1
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 15: What are you so black about, Phil?
at black, adj.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 257: He don’t dare go home and bunks at the Hoffman.
at bunk, v.2
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 65: Pete in one wild moment gives them a deep sepulchral Y!A!L!E! – YALE! suceeded by [...] a Princeton skyrocket. [Ibid.] 123: Augustus [...] dances about and screams out significantly, ‘Skyrockets! Skyrockets!’.
at sky rocket (cheer), n.1
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 67: ‘Has he passed in his chips?’ queries the leader.
at pass in one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 86: My erratic younger sister [...] Florence, to use a Western expression, being a ‘corker’!
at corker, n.2
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 193: I’ve heard of you; the populace say you cut me out with Miss Tillie.
at cut someone out of (v.) under cut, v.2
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 254: The child’s worn out with her dad’s cuttings up.
at cut up, v.1
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 158: I’m going to razzle-dazzle the boys at the Stuyvesant with my great lightning change act.
at razzle-dazzle, v.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 66: Wal, Doc, what’s the chances?
at doc, n.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 75: I got supenees for every man of ye [...] and he reads them out: ‘Asa Doe Bullock, Hiram Roe Filkins, John Doe, Richard Roe, etc., etc.’.
at John Doe, n.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 86: Little Gussie is the most dudish dude in New York.
at dudish (adj.) under dude, n.1
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 268: He thinks his performance will be a ‘go’.
at go, n.1
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 223: The janitor [...] states that in his opinion Stillman, Myth & Co. were in the ‘green-goods’ business.
at green goods, n.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 98: Bob, what’s the matter with you? Great Scott! the mine hain’t give out.
at great Scott! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 228: Gussie can hear the crinkle of the greenbacks as he folds them up.
at greenback, n.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 100: He grub-staked us, and we used to work on the Tillie mine together.
at grubstake, v.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 101: If you’ll take the chance of keeping your hair.
at hair, n.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 57: Old Mescal is now keeping a sharp eye out for the child and the cowboy, that he may send them to the happy hunting-grounds also.
at happy hunting grounds (n.) under happy, adj.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 103: I’m pretty certain she’s English and a high stepper.
at high-stepper, n.1
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 203: I just wanted to see my Tillie dance once. She’s a society hummer now.
at hummer, n.1
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 231: Prominently posted up by a wag [...] is a notice: FOR ELECTION. Gussie de P. Van Beekman, vice Baron Bassington, of Harrowby Castle, England. ON ICE!
at on ice (adj.) under ice, n.1
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 86: Bob, the hero who saved the Baby mine from the jumpers for us.
at jumper, n.1
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 27: Young man, I do this to save your life [...] If he stayed out, he’d perforate you sure.
at perforate, v.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 277: I [...] piped him after the manner of detectives.
at pipe, v.3
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 27: Shoot your man dead in this community fust, and call him a liar afterward; otherwise, you’ll be planted before you’ve got used to the climate.
at plant, v.2
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 96: Oh, it’s Flossie you’re driving at. Madame Lamher’s fixing up her educash. She’ll be hardly ready to take up her pos-sish in society till next fall.
at posish, n.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 154: That will be an absolute settler to the slightest suspicion of a doubt.
at settler, n.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 278: You would have half the money changers of England against you; they always make a pretty long and hard battle for their shekels.
at shekels, n.
[US] A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 13: The slugging and scrimmaging [...] had been something awful.
at slugging, n.
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