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[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (Oahu, HI) 28 Mar. 8/5: We had dhobi itch once.
at dhobi itch (n.) under dhobi, n.
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (Oahu, HI) 1 Jan. 8/1: [Charlie Chaplin’s] make-up was as near perfect as could be imagined, including the absurd moustache and the ‘canal boat’ shoes.
at canal boat, n.1
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 21 Feb. 17/3: He is one of the cleverest sporting editors in all the British Isles and has been the official ‘clocker’ for the [Daily] Telegraph for ever since I can remember.
at clocker, n.1
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 30 Oct. 6/2: A Cincinnati preacher who prayed for the repose of the Kaiser’s soul has been blacksnaked.
at blacksnake, v.
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 5 May 19/5: The Chinese rolled another pill, held it over the small alcohol lamp, and started the dream stick to working.
at dream stick (n.) under dream, n.4
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 5 June 6/1: Every bootlegger, booze-pusher and poison-peddler who creeps from cover to solicit [the] visitors.
at booze-pusher (n.) under booze, n.
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 19 June 32/1: A shagroon is an original settler.
at shagroon, n.
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 25 Mar. 33/1: ‘Nigger steak’ is not a meal for cannibals but simply [...] liver [...] a somewhat inadequate substitute for the real Mckoy, or, ‘a slice of cow’.
at cow, n.1
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 25 Mar. 33/1: ‘Nigger steak’ is not a meal for cannibals but simply [...] liver.
at nigger steak (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 25 Mar. 33/1: To be ‘up the pole’ is just another way of ‘going on the wagon’.
at up the pole, adj.1
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 25 Mar. 33/1: ‘Drawing rations’ has nothing to do with being issued foodstuffs [...] it pertains to ‘making love — in Brooklyn!’.
at rations, n.
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 25 Mar. 33/1: Slide the SOS (same old stuff — usually gravy or tuna-fish on toast).
at s.o.s., n.1
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 25 Mar. 33/1: I asked for java and side arms (milk and sugar).
at sidearms (n.) under side, adj.
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 22 Nov. 32/3: It was ‘The Sheriff’s new Hotel’ Jailer K Montgomery and his charges moved into the New Hotel.
at sheriff’s hotel (n.) under sheriff, n.
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 11 Oct. 25/1: Two more Honolulu professional shutter-snappers today joined photographers opposing the new [...] Board of Photography.
at snapper, n.5
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 1 Feb. 28: Chubby slid down. coming on like gangbusters.
at gangbusters, adv.
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 25 Dec. 11/6: The ups and downs of an elevator ‘pilot’s’ life are many.
at elevator jockey (n.) under elevator, n.
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 16 Jan. 29/4: ‘Sheesh, who’s chasin’ them dames?’.
at sheesh!, excl.
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 1 Jan. 28/2: Sketchy prison records from 1931 reveal [etc].
at sketchy, adj.
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 8 Oct. B-4/3: Whoa, surf buinnies and surf buddies, hold on to your baggies.
at surf bunny (n.) under bunny, n.1
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 7 Feb. 7/6: The eyesore of ‘tagging’.
at tag, v.2
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 16 Nov. A-12/3: The measure, she said, ‘demonstrates [...] that the Council is sytadfast in its opposition to international terrorism.’ That is bullwash.
at bullwash (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 19 Nov. 39/3: The celebrated Ras Records artists co-headlines Staurday’s Reggae Jam Down ’98.
at jam down (n.) under jam, v.3
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 5 Mar. 18 Jan. 18/1: R&B Albums [...] 8. Thugged Out the Abulation Yukmouth.
at thugged out, adj.
[US] Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI) 14 Apr. F4/4: The population, which sometimes calls itself Taswegian, feels itself a very separate entity from Australia.
at Taswegian, n.
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