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Me and Bad Eye and Slim choose

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[US] B.M. Harvey Me and Bad Eye and Slim 228: Phoned my mother [...] but the line was on the bum and couldent [sic] hardly hear her.
at on the bum (adj.) under bum, adj.
[US] B.M. Harvey Me and Bad Eye and Slim 103: You give her a clacker (two cent piece) and she hands you four pieces of paper and opens the door.
at clacker, n.2
[US] B.M. Harvey Me and Bad Eye and Slim 37: You say Pipe Down instead of Shut up, and a guy that’s goofy is dizzey.
at dizzy, adj.
[US] B.M. Harvey Me and Bad Eye and Slim 20: Today we had beef and spuds [...] and frog egg pudding.
at frog’s eggs (n.) under frog, n.1
[US] (con. 1918) B.M. Harvey Me and Bad Eye and Slim 21: The men hold out their mess kits and say, Hit me hard or hit me light, like in blackjack.
at hit, v.
[US] B.M. Harvey Me and Bad Eye and Slim 69: These Longhorns ought to of been put in the field artillery where there’s horses.
at longhorn, n.
[US] B.M. Harvey Me and Bad Eye and Slim 125: You are lucky to be a buck private, with nobody over you like a ranking officer to ride hell out of you like a second looie.
at looie, n.
[US] B.M. Harvey Me and Bad Eye and Slim 199: The skipper don’t know much about parley-vooing.
at parleyvoo, v.
[US] B.M. Harvey Me and Bad Eye and Slim 10: Where do these guys from the east get this idea of calling us California men Prunepickers.
at prune-picker (n.) under prune, n.
[US] B.M. Harvey Me and Bad Eye and Slim 191: Corp. Quinn, a old reg we call Mother Quinn.
at reg, n.
[US] B.M. Harvey Me and Bad Eye and Slim 37: Haven’t seen any subs yet.
at sub, n.1
[US] B.M. Harvey Me and Bad Eye and Slim 105: I was pretty zig-zag and woke up the whole stable.
at zigzag, adj.
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