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[US] Wash. Standard (Olympia, WA) 25 Apr. 1/6: ‘Your allusion to suckers and to breast works is extremely vulgar, and unworthy of the dignity of a married men’.
at sucker, n.1
[US] Wash. Standard (Olympia, WA) 5 July 1/3: It will give me influence enough with that old shark Fenton.
at shark, n.
[US] Wash. Standard (Olympia, WA) 5 Sept. 3/2: Three ‘skips’ in a week is something unsual [...] J.A. Anderson has hopped off his perch.
at hop off, v.1
[US] Wash. Standard (Olympia, WA) 5 Sept. 3/2: It isn’t the g.o.p. whooping up their prospects of victory in the [...] campaign.
at whoop it up, v.
[US] Wash. Standard (Olympia, WA) 5 Sept. 3/2: Three ‘skips’ in a week is something unsual [...] but the principals were doing only a ‘peanut’ business.
at peanut, adj.
[US] Wash. Standard (Olympia, WA) 5 Sept. 3/2: ‘Pogey’ Hartman has decamped leaving bills. Three ‘skips’ in a week is something unsual.
at skip, n.2
[US] Wash. Standard (Olympia, WA) 11 Dec. 4/2: That was the easiest snap I ever saw.
at snap, n.1
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