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[US] Cosmopolitan 41 398/2: The crowd of dinner- digesting men and women who are longing to get to the lobster-palace for supper.
at lobster-palace society (n.) under lobster, n.1
[US] J. London ‘The “Pen”: Long Days in a County Penitentiary’ in Cosmopolitan XLIII 380: It was the day of release for the third hall-man as well, and the short-time girl I had won for him was waiting for him outside the wall.
at short-time girl (n.) under short time, n.
[US] W. Irwin ‘O. Henry, Man and Writer’ in Cosmopolitan Sept. 448: [attrib. to O. Henry 3 June 1907] Suppose you and I got another chance, with the experience and knowledge we have now--wouldn't we boggle up our lives just as badly?
at boggle, v.
[US] Cosmopolitan Jan. 231/2: Hit up the hoochie music, you Black-Handers [DA].
at hootchy-kootchy, n.
[US] Cosmopolitan 55 76/1: I’m about ready to blow this burg.
at blow the joint (v.) under blow, v.1
[US] Cosmopolitan 59 141/1: 1915 ‘Eighter from Decatur!’ shouted the youth[...] ‘A six and a deuce! A five and three! Two bright fours! A nice little eight for all that money! Bones!’ .
at Ada from Decatur, n.
[US] Cosmopolitan 60 778: He’s the best con artist I ever met. He makes a specialty of crooks, he says. It's such easy graft.
at con-artist, n.
[US] Wodehouse in Cosmopolitan 68 88: I vote we go to the Cosmopolis [...] The browsing and sluicing isn't bad there.
at browsing and sluicing, n.
[US] H.C. Witwer in Cosmopolitan Nov. 98/1: He’s trying to put over a fast one!
at slip a fast one (over) (v.) under fast one, n.
[US] E. Hemingway in Cosmopolitan Apr. 108/3: He’d been giving the nigger a dollar a day and the nigger had been on a rumba every night. I could see him getting sleepy already .
at rumba, n.
[US] in Cosmopolitan CXXI 182: ‘It was signed shamelessly: Your own angel puss. Henry brought it to me. ... “Your own angel puss,”’ she spat out. ‘I think I’m going to be sick.’.
at angel puss (n.) under angel, n.
[US] Cosmopolitan 128 67/2: It [a movie] is actually a remake of Frank's oldie but goodie .
at oldie but (a) goodie (n.) under oldie, n.
[US] Cosmopolitan July 85: You with the plumbin’, what’s your name?
at plumbing, n.
[US] Cosmopolitan 152 76: By the time he emerges from it [i.e. the debutante circuit], he is thoroughly partied out and ready to begin his career.
at party out (v.) under party, v.
[US] Cosmopolitan 179 62: If you'd rather be a sloppy fatty than a disciplined skinny [...] why bother with the whole chewing and digesting process? Why not just slather whipped cream, peanut butter, and hollandaise all over your chubette hips.
at chubette (n.) under chub, n.1
[US] Cosmopolitan Dec. 168: Other aliases are Snor City (there’s a ‘total onsnort’ of moustachioed men), and Spark Plug (NGK) Country. ‘Pretoria,’ said a retired clerk living in Irene, ‘is Sodom and Gomorrah in a cloak of respectability.’ [DSAE].
at Snor City, n.
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