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[US] Pop. Mechanics Dec. 872/1: [report on adding a propellor to an automobile to increase the speed] The method of changing an automobile into a ‘buzz buggy’ is clearly shown in the photograph.
at buzz buggy (n.) under buzz, n.
[US] Pop. Mechanics Sep. 348: With improved roads also came the temptation to ‘step on it’.
at step on it (v.) under step on, v.
[US] Pop. Mechanics Aug. 124A/1: The pay-off man can skip town — and he usually does if the winnings against him are large.
at payoff man (n.) under payoff, n.
[US] Pop. Mechanics Jan. 32/2: No concessions are made to style in this muscle-car; frills are. Nobody tried to prettify the [Land] Rover.
at muscle car (n.) under muscle, n.
[US] Pop. Mechanics Aug. 106/2: If you have to brake or swerve suddenly, you'll be able to do so with consideration for the traffic behind and possibly avoid being rear-ended.
at rear end, v.
[US] Pop. Mechanics Jan. 117/1: Although the Bureau doesn’t have a crew of cops it can send out to put the pinch on a swindler, the agency is not without teeth.
at put the pinch on (v.) under pinch, n.
[US] Pop. Mechanics Nov. 13/3: Pontiac’s Trans Am is already the hot-set-up muscle car among young car nuts, but wait’ll they see the convertible version.
at muscle car (n.) under muscle, n.
[US] Pop. Mechanics Oct. 112/3: [advt] So many people have been totally convinced that bugs were crawling on or out of their skin, that the hallucination has a nickname: the coke bugs.
at coke bugs (n.) under bug, n.4
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