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The Flirt and the Flapper choose

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[UK] E. Glyn Flirt & Flapper 25: Flapper: Dope — is what makes you forget to-day and to-morrow, but remember the day after that — and how!
at and how!, excl.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 93: Flapper: I don’t know what I want —sometimes it’s Bruce and a baby, and sometimes it’s to [...] run wild all night — Oh, I get ants in my pants .
at ants in one’s pants under ants, n.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 31: You meet your best friend’s husband, and [...] you get all arteried up about him.
at arteried up, adj.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 126: Flirt: There can be nothing left but a Sisiterhood. Flapper: Not for this baby!
at baby, n.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 73: Flapper: He was batty about her, but she found him a back number.
at back number (n.) under back, adj.2
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 98: Flirt: You could start by showing your friends an example of good manners and consideration— Flapper: They’d think I was balmy .
at balmy, adj.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 73: Flapper: He was batty about her.
at batty, adj.1
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 83: Flapper: He began belly-aching at once.
at bellyache, v.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 73: Flapper: He was batty about her — but she found him a back number — after Billy became the big idea.
at big idea (n.) under big, adj.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 57: Flapper: Some of our Grannies are as hard-boiled as us.
at hard-boiled, adj.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt & Flapper 13: Flirt: I’ll go back to my frame. Flapper: Yes, do, old Bud —must ring up my bootlegger.
at bud, n.1
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 108: Flapper: Man isn’t vile [...] he’s only a dim bulb.
at dim bulb, n.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 95: Flirt: ‘Parker’ was asleep beside her [...] and at first she feared he had been bumped off .
at bump (off), v.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt & Flapper 11: Flapper: But you thought about kisses [...] we know they’re the bunk.
at bunk, n.2
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 79: Flapper: Now he’s given me the go-by for good.
at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt & Flapper 8: Gee! It’s queer to sit and chin with a picture.
at chin, v.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 76: Flapper: I didn’t really mean to chuck Bruce altogether.
at chuck, v.2
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 91: Flirt: Can young ladies break their appointments with impunity? [...] Flapper: [...] You chuck when you feel like it .
at chuck, v.2
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 56: Flirt: What do you call that indelicate handling, then—? Flapper: Oh! Just being chummy.
at chummy, adj.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 74: Flapper: Why [...] she was the cream in his coffee.
at cream in someone’s coffee (n.) under cream, n.1
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 53: Flirt: What is a heavy? Flapper: He’s the boy you’ve got a temporary crush on.
at crush, n.2
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt & Flapper 22: Flapper: [You’re] cute [...] quick at getting on to an idea.
at cute, adj.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 108: Flapper: A cutie is a little girl who’s cute enough to hide from the wife and get the dough from the husband.
at cutie, n.1
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 43: [Speakeasies] are for ladies too — and even dames.
at dame, n.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt & Flapper 11: Flirt: We knew nothing of sensation — we knew a great deal about emotion. Flapper: Well, what’s the difference, old dear?
at old dear, n.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 57: Flirt: I thought you said they — halted at a love nest [...] Flapper: They do, unless they fall among us debbies.
at debbie, n.
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 64: Flapper: I’ve got to make up my mind if I’ll dine with Jim Burly [...] or ditch him.
at ditch, v.1
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 68: Flapper: We’ll go to Harlem to a coloured show and then do the dives.
at dive, n.2
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 68: Flapper: We’ll go to Harlem to a coloured show and then do the dives.
at do, v.2
[UK] E. Glyn Flirt & Flapper 25: Flapper: Dope — is what makes you forget to-day and to-morrow, but remember the day after that — and how!
at dope, n.1
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