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[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 11 May 3/3: [US use] The New York Herald correspondent at Salt Lake, Utah, says: — ‘Butch’ Cassidy is a bad man. [...] For several years ‘Butch’ has proven a thorn in the flesh to the authorities of the four States in which he carries on his operations.
at butch, n.1
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 1 June 2/5: Again, there were the good, kind supporters around ‘Stinkopolis’ and its port to be considered.
at Stinkopolis, n.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 17 Sept. 2/1: Cann was taking off his coat and I told him not to, but to bog in.
at bog in, v.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 8 May 3/1: ‘I put the thing out of my mind before night and went ter the gaff.’.
at gaff, n.1
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 12 Nov. 2/2: It is impossible for me to give you a detailed description [...] because if I did the knight of the blue pencil would be sure to line it out.
at ...of the blue pencil (n.) under knight of the..., n.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 8 May 3/1: ‘I’ll tell you how a plain-clothes rozzer got me a stretch by simply “colouring the truth” as you call it’.
at rozzer, n.1
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 8 May 3/1: ‘I jumped at the chance, you bet, because I thought that it might help me to get away from my friend the split’.
at split, n.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 16 Nov. 4/7: Kennedy walked out of the Mason Dore restaurant [...] and seeing Modera on the side-walk ‘king-hit’ him and left him lying on the pavement.
at king hit, v.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 15 Dec. 4/4: Recently The Goldfields Licensed Victuallers’ Association decided to reduce the size of ‘pot’ glasses and charged 7d. for the liquid contents thereof .
at pot, n.1
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner 1 Nov. 6/7: The old race of plungers has to all intents and purposes died right out. Men do not go for the gloves as once they were wont to do, and nowadays a comparatively small outlay will make a horse favourite.
at go (in) for the gloves (v.) under glove, n.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 4 July 3/4: The part of Romeo Whybrow, the proprietor of the Goat and Galah Hotel, was taken by Mr. J. Fyvie Dench.
at goat-and-galah (adj.) under goat, n.1
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 4 Nov. 4/4: The people in attendance took part in a euchre competition. [...] Altogether 240 players took part in what has been jocularly known in Australia for several decades under the name, title and designation of ‘The Blackfellows’ Game’.
at blackfellow’s game, n.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 4 Dec. 5/5: There was a good attendance, but, compared with the gate receipts, it is understood that a good many patrons got in on a ‘sparrow’s ticket’ - over the fence.
at sparrow(’s) ticket (n.) under sparrow, n.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 4 Mar. 3/1: Nothing has been done of recent times to relieve the pressure for accommodation. Many families, as well as single men are sleeping at the ‘Star Hotel’ (under the stars.
at star hotel (n.) under star, n.1
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 12 Dec. : That’s an other of your cheer-chasers. You weren’t game to fight for your country in the last war; squibbing it every time; just a cheer-chaser, just a squib.
at chase cheers (v.) under chase, v.
[Aus] Kalgoorlie Miner WA) 12 Dec. : That’s an other of your cheer-chasers. You weren’t game to fight for your country in the last war; squibbing it every time; just a cheer-chaser, just a squib.
at squib (it), v.
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