1877 Bismarck Wkly Trib. (ND) 21 Apr. 1/1: It makes a man weary to be compelled to wind up a clothes line over his hand and elbow [...] yet he will go into a gin mill and unweariedly bend his elbow for hours.at bend one’s elbow (v.) under bend, v.1
1878 Bismarck Trib. (ND) 30 Dec. 1/4: [headline] Montana's Bible Pounder. J.X. Biedler, Montana’s frontier evangelist.at bible-pounder (n.) under bible, n.
1878 Bismarck (ND) Weekly Trib. 24 May 2/4: ‘Get out, you young vagabones,’ says the janitor [...] ‘Vagabone yourself,’ chimed Teddy, ‘an’ no music.’.at music, n.
1878 Bismarck (ND) Weekly Trib. 24 May 2/4: I say, Jack, wouldn’t it be a rum ’un, ef some millionaire u’d start us up in the newspaper line?at rum one, n.
1878 Bismarck (ND) Weekly Trib. 24 May 2/4: If the peelers found us boozing under the sidewalk, they’d nab us and have us vagged.at peeler, n.2
1878 Bismarck (ND) Weekly Trib. 24 May 2/4: If the peelers found us boozing under the sidewalk, they’d nab us and have us vagged.at vag, v.
1879 Bismarck Trib. (ND) 31 May 2/3: Why, you don’t mean to say, — Well, I never; — dash my wig, — well [etc.].at dash my wig(s)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
1879 Bismarck (ND) Trib. 19 July 4/1: In the slang of the profession, ‘he could ring in the suckers better than anybody.’.at ring in, v.2
1879 Bismarck Trib. (ND) 29 Mar. 5/1: An individual was taken in for the night, the head of the establishment not being able to withstand his piteous appeals for a night’s lodging on tick.at on tick under tick, n.3
1880 Bismarck Trib. (ND) 23 July 8/1: Charlie Williams handles the ribbons on the quarter stretch [...] while his extensive patronage handle the ‘conversation water’.at conversation water (n.) under conversation, n.
1880 Bismarck Trib. (ND) 13 Feb. 8/4: Old Probabilities don’t give us a rest on the blizzard business.at Old Probabilities (n.) under old, adj.
1880 Bismarck Trib. (ND) 9 July 2/2: De ole man called it to himself sassiness, an’ impudence.at sassiness (n.) under sass, n.1
1881 Bismarck Trib. (ND) 4 Mar. 6/1: ‘Take it [i.e. a drink], stranger; you need it a durn sight more’n I do’.at by a long sight (adv.) under sight, n.2
1882 Bismarck (ND) Trib. 3 Nov. 4/4: A New York correspondent [...] had a dream of going down to the bay [...] to interview the Jersey Lily, who used lots of slang, and told him she was ‘on the make.’ But this was only a dream.at on the make under make, n.2
1883 Bismarck Tribune (ND) 18 May 4/5: Y.M.C.A. Fellows in the Beer City, Milwaukee.at Beer City (n.) under beer, n.
1883 Bismarck (ND) Trib. 26 Jan. 8/1: The minister preached how vulgar it was to use slang [...] Just the minute I caught on to his racket, it broke me all up.at break up, v.
1883 Bismarck (ND) Trib. 26 Jan. 8/1: The minister preached how vulgar it was to use slang [...] Just the minute I caught on to his racket, it broke me all up.at catch on, v.
1883 Bismarck (ND) Trib. 26 Jan. 8/1: The minister preached how vulgar it was to use slang [...] I resolved then and there to take a tumble to myself that instant and cheese the vulgar habit.at cheese, v.1
1883 Bismarck (ND) Trib. 26 Jan. 8/1: The minister preached how vulgar it was to use slang [...] Just the minute I caught on to his racket, it broke me all up.at racket, n.1
1883 Bismarck Trib. (ND) 10 Aug. 4/3: Shagnasty John, the harmless crank who pretends to edit a sickly, half-fed little sheet of paper called the Chamberlain register.at shag-nasty (adj.) under shag, v.1
1883 Bismarck (ND) Trib. 26 Jan. 8/1: The minister preached how vulgar it was to use slang [...] I knew he was givin’ us the square deal.at square deal (n.) under square, adj.
1883 Bismarck (ND) Trib. 26 Jan. 8/1: The minister preached how vulgar it was to use slang, and he gave us the straight tip, you bet.at straight tip (n.) under tip, n.5
1883 Bismarck (ND) Trib. 26 Jan. 8/1: The minister preached how vulgar it was to use slang [...] I resolved then and there to take a tumble to myself that instant and cheese the vulgar habit.at take a tumble (v.) under tumble, n.
1884 Bismarck Trib. (ND) 11 Apr. 2/2: Labouchere writing of English society women heads his article ‘Bluenosed, Naked and Ashamed.’ Bluenosed? Naked? By jove they ought to be ashamed.at blue-nosed, adj.
1884 Bismarck Trib. (ND) 25 Jan. The lady might move in the best circles [...] and be regarded as a very queen of the bong tong: .at bong tong, n.
1895 Bismarck Wkly Trib. (ND) 29 Mar. 4/6: A bluffing book pedlar [...] is meeting with dippers of hot water from the woman he tries to compel to buy his wares.at book bluffing (n.) under book, n.
1895 Bismarck Wkly Trib. (ND) 8 Feb. 8/2: The whole of Darktown danced [...] ’Liza Jane was whooped up as only Darktown knows how.at darktown (n.) under dark, n.
1899 Bismarck Wkly Trib. (ND) 27 Oct. 6/3: The young men fresh from West Point [...] are known as ‘Shavetails’.at shavetail, n.
1916 Bismarck Trib. (ND) 2 Dec. 1/4: Freeze was inistsent that drunks could be scooped up on the south side.at scoop, v.
1918 Bismarck Tribune (ND) 21 Mar. 1/3: [headline] Papers Already Drawn Up Seeking Conviction of Beer City Chief Executive.at Beer City (n.) under beer, n.