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Oakland Trib. (CA) 4 Mar. 2/3: The new Court-house dome may stick out like a sore thumb, yet it is nevertheless ‘way up’.at stick out like a sore thumb, v.
Oakland Trib. (CA) 4 Mar. 2/3: The new Court-house dome may stick out like a sore thumb, yet it is nevertheless ‘way up’. Oakland Trib. (CA) 19 June 3/1: In the Police Court [...] one unusually ‘soggy’ old drunk was fined $10.at soggy, adj.
Oakland Trib. 10 Oct. 3/4: The foolish ‘beer-busts’ practiced by a few, and generally condemned by all sensible people.at beer bust (n.) under beer, n.
Oakland Trib. (CA) 8 Mar. 1/4: Painting the town pink, which some have supposed to be the feminine form of painting the town red.at paint the town pink (v.) under paint, v.
Oakland Trib. (CA) 17 Sept. 10/1: The ‘Whyos’ [...] did not live in the street, but ‘hung out’.at hang out, v.1
Oakland Trib. (CA) 17 Sept. 10/1: ‘He was hell wid his gun; used ter shoot till he could split der balls on a pin across the street’.at hell, adj.
Oakland Trib. (CA) 17 Sept. 10/1: Poor old Bottle alley in Baxter street has become a mere snoozing ken for vagrants.at snoozing ken, n.
Oakland Trib. (CA) 17 Sept. 10/1: ‘See ’em [...] there’ mugs for you [...] hard characters [...] thieves from the first ward — fellows that rob’.at mug, n.1
Oakland Trib. (CA) 17 Sept. 10/2: ‘He’d be a-thinkin’ ho he could get a feller out of some snap’.at snap, n.2
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Oakland Trib. (CA) 1 Nov. 12/3: ‘I’ll beat the stuffing out of you,’ is the response Curtain is alleged to have made.at beat the stuffing out of (v.) under stuffing, n.1
Oakland Trib. (CA) 9 May 25/1: He was ghastly pale and in the parlance of the police reporter was then set down for a ‘dope-head’.at dopehead (n.) under dope, n.1
Oakland Trib. (CA) 18 May 3/2: The chief said that Flannery had nothing to do with the appointment of farrell on the bunko squad.at bunco squad (n.) under bunco, n.
Oakland Trib. (CA) 12 Dec. 6: They’re going to bring ’em over here—zillions of ’em.at zillion, n.
Oakland Trib. (CA) 3 Dec. 5/4: He came down hard, ker-thump.at kerthump! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
Oakland Trib. 9CA) 21 Oct. 22/4: When you’ve kicked the grape around / Till you’re dizzy in the dome; / And you shake a nasty hoof / On your cork-screw way home.at shake a wicked leg (v.) under shake, v.
Oakland Trib. 13 Apr. 1/2: If you lay down the boffo for that, I’ll give that flatwheeler the air, and then I’ll be your twist.at twist (and twirl), n.
Oakland Trib. 13 Apr. 1/2: That bus is sure the cat’s pajamas. Any Barlow who wouldn't be goofy about it is a dumb dora for fair.at Barlow, n.
Oakland Trib. 13 Apr. 1/2: If you lay down the boffo for that, I’ll give that flatwheeler the air, and then I’ll be your twist.at boffo, n.1
Oakland Trib. 13 Apr. 1/2: ‘You’ll be the Broosky [sic] boy with the wrinkle when you back that cart up to the home dump! at Brooksey boy, n.
Oakland Trib. 13 Apr. 1/2: ’[I]f you’ll promise you'll cart around no strikebreakers, I promise that I’ll never squirrel any mad money when we blouses around’.at mad money (n.) under mad, adj.
Oakland Trib. 13 Apr. 1/2: ’[I]f you’ll promise you'll cart around no strikebreakers, I promise that I’ll never squirrel any mad money when we blouses around’.at strike breaker (n.) under strike, n.
Oakland Trib. (CA) 11 July 13/4: [headline] Bunco Squad Lands Alleged ‘Con’ Man.at bunco squad (n.) under bunco, n.
Oakland Trib. 11 Mar. O7/1: In one city the used car department, separate from the salesrooms of a prominent dealer, disposed of a used car for S300 and the manager of that department congratulated himself upon having rid himself of a ‘lemon’ finally.at lemon, n.
Oakland Trib. (CA) 13 June 20/4: The men coming from both ways [...] gave by constrast even the garb of a common soldier a degree of elegance that marked him for the lady’s part in the ordinary ‘stag dance’.at stag dance (n.) under stag, adj.
Oakland Tribune (CA) 28 May 20/3: I’m just a sheiky junior and go around with about all the girls.at sheiky (adj.) under sheik, n.1
Oakland Trib. (CA) 30 Apr. 3/2: An unprecedented stock of straws, panamas, and other varieties of cow breakfast hats.at cow’s breakfast (n.) under cow, n.1
Oakland Tribune (CA) 20 Dec. 5/2: A pack horse had trotted up a gallon of giggle soup [...] and the elbow-benders were putting ona free-for-all.at giggle soup (n.) under giggle, adj.
Oakland Tribune (CA) 20 Dec. 5/3: It was side-by-side until this morning, when they line up before the gavel and get the hot-spot.at hot spot, n.
Oakland Tribune (CA) 20 Dec. 5/3: It was side-by-side until this morning, when they line up before the gavel and get the hot-spot.at icebox, n.
Oakland Trib. (CA) 3 Mar. 6/4: We hung him and crashed into the covered wagon. We let out one squeeze on the howler then perambulated to the paternal abode.at howler, n.
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