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[US] Colfax Chron. (Grant Parish, LA) 28 Oct. 1/6: If you come around [...] tryin’ experiments on me, I’ll wrench your brain-pan for you.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] Colfax Chron. (LA) 10 Feb. 2/3: Let him [...] go for buzzard bait — all that he is fit for.
at buzzard bait (n.) under buzzard, n.
[US] Colfax Chron. (Grant Parish, LA) 21 Aug. 2/3: You saw what a give-away his looks are [...] You’d think a jeweler would send for a policeman.
at give-away, n.
[US] Colfax Chron. (Grant Parish, LA) 21 Aug. 2/3: He goes into a jewelry store with a confederate (usually his moll).
at moll, n.
[US] Colfax Chron. (Grant Parish, LA) 21 Aug. 2/3: ‘What is a pennyweighter?’ was asked [...] ‘I’ll tell you. the racket is simply lifting chains and jewelry at the stores’ .
at pennyweighter, n.
[US] Colfax Chron. (Grant Parish, LA) 21 Aug. 2/3: Now when he lifts that handkerchief he drops what he has lifted into his pocket. That’s penny-weighting.
at pennyweighter, n.
[US] Colfax Chron. (Grant Parish, LA) 18 Feb. 1/3: For a newspaper editor to gulp down his buncombe and solidly take about the payment of an honest debt as a ‘steal’ . . .
at bunkum, n.
[US] Colfax Chron. (Grant Parish, LA) 18 Feb. 1/3: Anything seems to be grist that comes to the mill of our latter day ring-tailed squealers.
at ringtailed snorter, n.
[US] Colfax Chron. (LA) 16 Nov. 2/3: We were all busy boiling wildcat whisky.
at wildcat, n.
[US] Colfax Chron. (Grant Parish, LA) 21 Oct. 2/5: Low Slums Near the Nation’s Capital [...] Pigtail alley, Tincup alley, Louse alley and Hell’s Half Acre alley. these [...] have the virtue of making any other description unnecessary.
at pigtail alley (n.) under pigtail, n.
[US] Colfax Chron. (LA) 18 May 5/2: John Tinaglia, an Italian, had shot Harrison Gray, alias ‘Jaybird,’ and Napoleon Kees, both negroes.
at jaybird, n.1
[US] Colfax (LA) 20 Dec. 6/1: The orphans and the cripples and the poor folks everywheres.
at everywheres, n.
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