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The Bread-Winners choose

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[US] J. Hay Bread-Winners (1884) 140: ‘Hold on, Cap,’ he said.
at cap, n.1
[US] J. Hay Bread-Winners (1884) 161: You haven’t done a — thing but lay around on the grass and eat peanuts and hear Bott chin.
at chin, v.
[US] J. Hay Bread-Winners (1884) 75: He hated these ‘chinny bummers,’ as he called them, who talked about ‘State help and self-help’ over their beer.
at chinny, adj.
[US] J. Hay Bread-Winners (1884) 241: If I was you [...] I’d crack Art. Farnham’s cocoa-nut.
at coconut, n.1
[US] J. Hay Bread-Winners (1884) 143: ‘You surely do not intend —’ ‘To strike Saul for a divvy?’.
at divvy, n.1
[US] J. Hay Bread-Winners (1884) 232: By jingo! it wasn’t half a flash before another fellow slapped him.
at jingo!, excl.
[US] J. Hay Bread-Winners (1884) 143: How much did the Captain give you for that sell-out?
at sell-out, n.
[US] J. Hay Bread-Winners (1884) 240: If I had all the cash he takes in to-night, I’d buy an island and shoot the machine business.
at shoot, v.
[US] J. Hay Bread-Winners (1884) 142: Exactly! Now you’re talkin’.
at now you’re talking under talk, v.
[US] J. Hay Bread-Winners (1884) 142: Say the word and it’s a whack.
at whack, n.1
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