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[US] Atchison Dly Champion (KS) 12 Mar. 2/1: We hear nothing now of how one of the men landed with his ‘bunch of fives’ upon his opponent’s ‘peeper,’ or thumped him upon his ‘brain canister,’ or ‘fibbed him on his portmanteau’.
at brain-canister (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] Atchison Dly Champion (KS) 12 Mar. 2/1: We hear nothing now of how one of the men landed with his ‘bunch of fives’ upon his opponent’s ‘peeper,’ or thumped him upon his ‘brain canister,’ or ‘fibbed him on his portmanteau’.
at bunch of fives, n.
[US] Atchison Dly Champion (KS) 12 Mar. 2/1: Prize-fighters these days never break a ‘claret jug,’ nor do they get a ‘cant on the kisser’.
at cant, n.2
[US] Atchison Dly Champion (KS) 12 Mar. 2/1: Prize-fighters these days never break a ‘claret jug,’ nor do they get a ‘cant on the kisser’.
at claret-jug (n.) under claret, n.
[US] Atchison Dly Champion (KS) 12 Mar. 2/1: We hear nothing now of how one of the men landed with his ‘bunch of fives’ upon his opponent’s ‘peeper,’ or thumped him upon his ‘brain canister,’ or ‘fibbed him on his portmanteau’.
at fib, v.
[US] Atchison Dly Champion (KS) 12 Mar. 2/1: All those good old homely English terms are eliminated from the vocabulary of the prize ring as a result of its sordidness and its degeneration into a mere gabfest.
at gabfest (n.) under gab, v.
[US] Atchison Dly Champion (KS) 12 Mar. 2/1: Prize-fighters these days never break a ‘claret jug,’ nor do they get a ‘cant on the kisser’.
at kisser, n.
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