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[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 8 Jan. 2/6: [of a boxer] Everyone sems to be after McGovern for a fight now. The latest one whom the trolley dodger has agreed to meet is Charley Kelly.
at trolley-dodger (n.) under trolley, n.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 2 Dec. 10/3: The whole bunch [of ‘almond-eyed individuals’] should be tin-canned out of the country.
at tin-can, v.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 27 Jan. 7/2: The oriental ink consumer that wrote this is there ‘forty ways from Sunday’.
at six ways from (next) Sunday under Sunday, n.1
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 15 June 14/3: Here in ‘Spicktown’ [...] are typical adobe houses.
at Spicktown (n.) under spic, adj.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 31 May 3/2: They call him a ‘society fighter,’ and he is the current matinee idol of the ring, but his victory over Tommy Farr has shown that he is no knight of the powder puff.
at ...powder puff under knight of the..., n.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 12 Sept. 9/1: The person who is not stir-wise [...] would be classified as ‘fresh meat’ or ‘fish’.
at fresh meat, n.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 12 Sept. 9/1: The person who is not stire-wise [...] would be classified as ‘fresh meat’ or ‘fish’.
at stirwise (adj.) under stir, n.1
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 17 Mar. 5/5: [He] wrote [...] expressing his disgust of the typical American city and ‘the house-wifey’ women.
at wifey, n.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 29 Aug. 13/2: ‘Sunbeams’ was one of those photographs which excite from afar. But [...] it is what our good friends of the astage call a ‘three sheeter’. In other words it is a show-off.
at three-sheet, v.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 26 July 7/1: Furs favored for the head warmers: Shaggy red fox, civet cat, and dyed bunny.
at bunny, n.1
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 24 Nov. 4/1: Talk about making Indiana a one-tax state is so much Hoosier bunombe. It doesn’t even rate high on the scale of political flim-flammery.
at flimflammery (n.) under flim-flam, n.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 17 Feb. 4/2: Ker-bump! he walked into O Wayne oBtkin [sic] advertising director of the Muncie Star.
at kerbump! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 9 May 25/3: No Arrogance, No Snideness.
at snideness (n.) under snide, adj.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 24 Oct. 23/2: The Irish have at least two dozen words for inebriation [...] killarneyed, fluthered, stotious, pallatic, maggoty, blithero, half-tore, paralytic and stoven.
at blithero, adv.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 24 Oct. 23/2: The Irish have at least two dozen words for inebriation [...] killarneyed, fluthered, stotious, pallatic, maggoty, blithero, half-tore, paralytic and stoven.
at cut, adj.1
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 24 Oct. 23/2: The Irish have at least two dozen words for inebriation [...] killarneyed, fluthered, stotious, pallatic, maggoty, blithero, half-tore, paralytic and stoven.
at fluthered, adj.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 24 Oct. 23/2: The Irish have at least two dozen words for inebriation [...] killarneyed, fluthered, stotious, pallatic, maggoty, blithero, half-tore, paralytic and stoven.
at killarneyed, adj.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 24 Oct. 23/2: The Irish have at least two dozen words for inebriation [...] killarneyed, fluthered, stotious, pallatic, maggoty, blithero, half-tore, paralytic and stoven.
at maggoty, adj.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 24 Oct. 23/2: The Irish have at least two dozen words for inebriation [...] killarneyed, fluthered, stotious, pallatic, maggoty, blithero, half-tore, paralytic and stoven.
at palatic, adj.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 24 Oct. 23/2: The Irish have at least two dozen words for inebriation [...] killarneyed, fluthered, stotious, pallatic, maggoty, blithero, half-tore, paralytic and stoven.
at stocious, adj.1
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 24 Oct. 23/2: The Irish have at least two dozen words for inebriation [...] killarneyed, fluthered, stotious, pallatic, maggoty, blithero, half-tore, paralytic and stoven.
at stoven, adj.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 24 Oct. 23/2: The Irish have at least two dozen words for inebriation [...] killarneyed, fluthered, stotious, pallatic, maggoty, blithero, half-tore, paralytic and stoven.
at tore up, adj.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 9 Nov. 18/1: ‘I’ve got to get to the hair drier!’ ‘Go soak your head’.
at go soak your head! (excl.) under soak, v.1
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 3 Nov. 3/1: Half the population of Stickville, the three guys in the station, come over to hear the whole story.
at Stickville, n.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 5 July 33/1: [headline] Skinflint existence ‘a way of life, recession or not’.
at skinflint, n.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 15 May 23/4: Am I calling the man a racist? Not at all [...] Damn skippy.
at skippy, adj.
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 14 Jan. 18/3: Capricorn [...] Some people may not realize that you’re really a cuddle bunny.
at cuddle bunny (n.) under bunny, n.1
[US] Star Press (Muncie, IN) 28 Feb. A8/1: Why tempt some sticky-finger thief by leaving your purse in the car?
at sticky-fingered (adj.) under sticky fingers, n.
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