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[US] Pittsburgh Dly Post 13 Aug. 1/7: He handed me a gl;ass o’ sumthin that smelt stronger’n all git out.
at all get out, phr.
[US] Pittsburgh Dly Post 7 Jan. 5/2: In nearly every occupation the capable workers has a nickname for the botcher [...] The physician who never cures [is] a quack; the cheap stevedore, a lumper; the looking-glass prize-fighter, a beefer.
at beefer (n.) under beef, v.1
[US] Pittsburgh Dly Post (PA) 30 Mar. 4/6: Fred Oakhurst’s saloon [...] is where you find the opposition [to prohibitionists] the ‘booze-hoisters’ of the village.
at booze-hoister (n.) under booze, n.
[US] Pittsburgh Dly Post (PA) 16 July 9/2: A fat man is a squab.
at squab, n.1
[US] Pittsburgh Dly Post (PA) 16 Aug. 18/2: Everything [...] is first tried on skinny Lizzie.
at skinny Liz (n.) under skinny, adj.
[US] Pittsburgh Dly Post (PA) 6 Mar. 13/6: It is not spuds but spud juice that makes the Irish seek glory in the trenches [...] The juice of the potatoes is poteen.
at spud juice (n.) under spud, n.3
[US] Pittsburgh Dly Post (PA) 21 Aug. 12/2: You remember that bratty little Elmer Doolittle [...] The measley little redhead with the freckles.
at bratty, adj.
[US] Pittsburgh Dly Post (PA) 12 Feb. 24/2: The farmer isn’t the hard-baked fellow he’s cracked up to be.
at hard-baked (adj.) under hard, adj.
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