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[US] Abbeville Banner (SC) 19 June 1/5: Button up his lip and knock him bang-up!!
at bang up, adv.
[US] Abbeville Banner (SC) 19 June 1/5: Button up his lip and knock him bang-up!!
at button up (v.) under button, v.
[US] Abbeville Banner (SC) 19 June 1/5: Get his head in a chancery, and bleed him till he pleads.
at in chancery under chancery, n.
[US] Abbeville Banner (SC) 19 June 1/5: Knuckle him [...] make mince meat of him!!
at knuckle, v.2
[US] Abbeville Banner (SC) 19 June 1/5: Tan his hide [...] peel the bark off his nose — and damage his skin!
at peel the bark (v.) under peel, v.
[US] Abbeville Banner (SC) 19 June 1/5: Peg it into [...] that’s it, wax him, my lad; beat him!
at peg (it) into (v.) under peg, v.1
[US] Abbeville Banner (SC) 19 June 1/5: His mother [...] rigged out in a beautiful jacket.
at rig, v.1
[US] Abbeville Banner (SC) 19 June 1/5: Don’t let him stump you, give him one on his nigger head!!
at stump, v.1
[US] Abbeville Banner (SC) 19 June 1/5: Peg it into [...] that’s it, wax him, my lad; beat him!
at wax, v.2
[US] Abbeville Press & Banner (SC) 26 Nov. 2/5: I intend to give you the damnedest licking you ever had.
at damned, adj.
[US] Abbeville Press (SC) 18 Jan. 3/3: The ‘Highbinders’ of San Francisco [...] Among the hatchet men will be found the depserate criminals who have fled from Canton or Hong Kong.
at highbinder, n.
[US] Abbeville Press (SC) 27 Feb. 1/5: Baked beans and bean soup are ribstickers and very healthy for old and young.
at rib sticker (n.) under rib, n.1
[US] Abbeville Press & Banner (SC) 13 June 6/5: The jail is no playhouse [...] smnall cells with bars and [...] the hardest of beds.
at playhouse, n.
[US] Abbeville Press & Banner (SC) 8 Mar. 4/3: The swell bean said he’d like to fight, / But for her sake he’d tarry.
at swellhead, n.2
[US] Abbeville Press (SC) 3 June 7/2: If only the brush [sic], crass coloured people of San Juan Hill [...] would copy the manners and niceness of speech and feeling of their Southern brothers.
at San Juan Hill, n.
[US] Abbeville Press & Banner 28 Apr. 5/5: The ‘blues’ is a subject which deserves the biggest attention [...] We coime in contact with many ‘blues’, [...] the Monday morning ‘blues’ [...] the ‘crazy blues’ very common among boys [...] His girl gives him the ‘high foot’ [...] His heart is sad. He has those ‘crazy blues’.
at blues, n.1
[US] Abbeville Press & Banner 28 Apr. 5/5: The ‘blues’ is a subject which deserves the biggest attention [...] We coime in contact with many ‘blues’, [...] the Monday morning ‘blues’ [...] the ‘crazy blues’ very common among boys [...] His girl gives him the ‘high foot’ [...] His heart is sad. He has those ‘crazy blues’.
at give someone the foot (v.) under foot, n.
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