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[US] Waco Eve. News (TX) 17 Oct. 2/1: Carroll can sling ink, and don’t you forget it.
at sling ink (v.) under ink, n.
[US] Waco Eve. News (TX) 18 Sept. 2/2: He would not solicit the colored vote [...] but when the race was between a Democrat and a scalawag-Democrat [...] he was ready to go on the stump.
at scallywag, n.
[US] Waco Eve. News (TX) 25 Mar. 4/3: An attachment was issued for the witness [...] who will catch Jesse if not on hand to-morrow.
at give someone jesse (v.) under jesse, n.
[US] Waco Eve. News (TX) 28 Apr. 2/2: Hogg’s Bad Break [...] This was a bad break, just such a one as all hypocrites make when they attempt to deceive the people.
at bad break (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] Waco Eve. News (TX) 25 Mar. 2/2: The people had a regular hog-killing time in 1890 and have been feasting on backbone.
at hog-killing (time) (n.) under hog, n.
[US] Waco Eve. News (TX) 20 Nov. 4/4: The proposal [...] being voted on by [...] the Cigarmakers Union is to omit from the label the words ‘opposed to inferior, rat-shop, coolie, prison or filthy tenement house workmanship’.
at coolie, adj.
[US] Waco Eve. News (TX) 20 Nov. 4/4: The proposal [...] being voted on by [...] the Cigarmakers Union is to omit from the label the words ‘opposed to inferior, rat-shop, coolie, prison or filthy tenement house workmanship’.
at rat shop (n.) under rat, n.1
[US] Waco Eve. News (TX) 16 Jan. 3/4: A blab-mouth, curb-stone-kicker-anti-newspaper-landlord.
at blabbermouth, adj.
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