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[US] Helena Indep. (MT) 30 Nov. 4/2: You can bet your neck I enjoyed life for a few weeks after Harrison downed him.
at bet one’s neck (v.) under bet, v.
[US] Helena Indep. (MT) 27 Dec. 1/5: ‘Jewhillikens! Just listen...’.
at gee whillikins!, excl.
[US] Helena Indep. (MT) 22 July 4/3: A man came staggering down Main Street [...] so full of fire-water that he could see two moons [...] although it was the middle of the day.
at see two moons (v.) under see, v.
[US] Helena Indep. (MT) 27 Dec. 1/5: ‘Shucks!’ said Jim-Polk, ‘wait till Harbert there gets stirred up’.
at shucks!, excl.
[US] Helena (MT) Indep. 30 Dec. 2/5: Bundles and packages of morphine, cocaine, opium, yenshee and hashish [...] were burned in the kitchen range of the county bastille. The ‘junk’ [...] would have meant pipe-dreams for many addicts.
at junk, n.1
[US] Helena (MT) Indep. 30 Dec. 2/5: Bundles and packages of morphine, cocaine, opium, yenshee and hashish [...] were burned in the kitchen range of the county bastille.
at yen-shee, n.
[US] Helena (MT) Indep. 2 Mar. 8/8: [They] were in possession of 25 bindles of morphine, 26 bindles of cocaine, and five bindles of yenshee. A bindle is a small package prepared to sell for $1.
at bindle, n.
[US] Helena (MT) Indep. 19 Nov. 7/4: The consignment [...] was the largest [...] in many years in the west, Mr. Cass said after checking the 57 one-ounce cans of opium.
at can, n.1
[US] Helena (MT) Indep. 27 Oct. 9/1–2: G-Man’s sweetheart. Brother a notorious gang leader [...] Gets all messed up in G-men, desperadoes, iron knuckles and machine guns.
at messed (up), adj.
[US] Helena (MT) Indep. 11 Mar. 2/7: They said it as the first opium den knocked over in Montana since the early 1920’s.
at knock over, v.
[US] Helena (MT) Indep. 11 Mar. 2/7: He was found, it is alleged, with a large quantity of morphine, yenshee, yenpops at 206 South main Street.
at yen pop (n.) under yen, n.1
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