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[US] Chicago Record 14 July 11/3: An’ den w’en ye meets one uv yer own kind ye feels like old pals, ’cause he calls ye ‘Ho’ an’ ye calls him ‘Bo’. See? [DA].
at bo, n.1
[US] Chicago Record 19 Feb. n.p. : During 1891 and 1892 there were a dozen ordinances which brought in their ‘bits,’ yet in one case the price went down to 300 dollars.
at bit, n.1
[US] Chicago Record 1 Feb. 13/1: A few ‘cheap skates’ who don’t even belong to the club, called a meeting at the Hotel [DA].
at cheapskate, n.
[US] Chicago Record 11 Feb. 6/5: Even though there might be some precincts where the ‘wets’ outnumbered the ‘drys’ — yet the whole country would go dry.
at dry, n.1
[US] Chicago Record 11 Feb. 6/5: Even though there might be some precints where the ‘wets’ outnumbered the ‘drys’ — yet the whole country would go dry [DA].
at wet, n.
[US] Chicago Record 2 Mar. 4: Many a ‘Checaco’ (tenderfoot) on his way to the mines, with a pack on his back, has thrown down his pack and struck back for town [...] cursing the country and its mosquitos [DA].
at cheechako, n.
[US] Chicago Record 1 Mar. 6/1: ‘Milk trains’ [...] have ‘rights’ over the rails and get nothing but ‘high balls’ [DA].
at highball, n.2
[US] Chicago Record-Herald 18 Aug. n.p.: The most expert manipulators of cards that ever dealt a second or shifted a cold deck sat behind the tables.
at cold deck, n.
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