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Hard Boiled Speak Flashcards

1
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Money

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Bacon, Cabbage, folding green, kale, lettuce, long green, Lincoln or a five spot ($5 bill) bread, dough, moolah, rhino, salad, suds

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2
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Know it all

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Abercrombie

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3
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Cool

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Aces

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4
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Swing music fan

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Alligator, cat

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No good

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All wet

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6
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Telephone

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Ameche, the blower, the horn

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Woman

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A broad, a dame, a dish, a doll, frail, a kitten, a muffin, a twist,

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8
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A baby

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A glass of milk

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9
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Booze

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Bath tub gin, rot gut, giggle juice, hooch, mule

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Gun

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Bean shooter, convincer, gat, a heater, a rod, a roscoe; packing heat, wearing iron

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11
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I was Broke

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Beat , behind the grind

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12
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Prison

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The big house, hoosegow

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13
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Blackmail

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Bleed

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14
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Eyes

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Blinkers, lamps, peepers, pies, shutters

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15
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Leave, exit

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Blow, drift, am-scram, make tracks, scram, split, take a powder

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16
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Don’t get excited

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Don’t blow your wig

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17
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What’s the talk on the street?

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What’s the Booshwash ?

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18
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I can’t waste my time talking to you

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I can’t waste time bumping gums

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19
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A mistake

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Brodie

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20
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Henchmen

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Bruno’s, Cronies, goons, hatchet men, torpedoes, trigger men

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21
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An advantage

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A bulge

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22
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An attractive woman

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A butter and egg fly, doll face, a dish, a hot mamma, a looker, a sweet mama, a sweet patootie, a tomato

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23
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The man with the money, a bank roll

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Her butter and egg man

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24
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Police badge

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A buzzer

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25
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Ounce of cocaine, heroine

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A Cadillac

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26
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Female singer

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A canary

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27
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At my house or apartment

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My cave

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28
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A coffin

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A Chicago overcoat

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29
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A machine gun

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A Chicago typewriter, Tommy gun, Chopper, a gat

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30
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Dollar bills

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A check, a checker, a saw buck

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31
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Glass of water

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A cup of city juice ; dog soup

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32
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To cheat, to work an angle

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Chisel swindle

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33
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Railroad detective

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Cinder dick

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34
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Take a wild swing

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A clam-bake

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35
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Night club, gambling joint

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Clip-joint

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36
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Police

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A copper

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37
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I’m not some loser

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I’m not some crumb

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38
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To insult

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Crust

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39
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Disappointment

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Curve

40
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Super cute

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Cute as a bug’s ear

41
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Leave in a hurry, abruptly

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Dangle, Make tracks

42
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A bad dancer

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A dead hoofer; a cement mixer

43
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A detective

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A dick; a flatfoot, gum shoe, a shamus;

44
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To think hard; to understand

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Dig

45
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Dil-ya-be

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A phone call

46
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Silly

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Dingy

47
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To be in love with a woman

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Dizzy with a dame

48
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Self consciously well dressed

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Doggy

49
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Sleep

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Doss

50
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To shot a gun

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Drilling, filling someone full of daylight, give someone lead poisoning; plugging, throwing lead

51
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Legs

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Gams, Stems, a bird with a nice set of drumsticks, get away sticks, pins, pillars, uprights

52
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Fists, hands

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Dukes, grabbers, meat hooks, paws

53
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Egg

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A crude person

54
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To run smoothly

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Eggs in coffee

55
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In a bad mood

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Feeling evil

56
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A girlfriend (to a boy)

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A fem, a filly, flame, a flirt, fuss,

57
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A car

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A flivver, a tin can

58
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A dumb person

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A genius

59
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Federal agent

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G-man

60
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Speak easy, bar, or tavern

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A gun mill

61
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Saxophone

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Gobble-pipe

62
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Unpopular person

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Greseball, Hal-portion, jellybean, wet smack,?wet sock

63
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Con man

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Grifter

64
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Messing things up

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Gumming the works

65
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Tough

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Hard boiled eggs

66
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Feet

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Hocks, plates

67
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A kiss

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Honey cooler

68
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A kiss

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Honey cooler

69
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Electric chair

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The hot squat

70
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Electric chair

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The hot squat

71
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House detective

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House dick, house peeper

72
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Average guy

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Joe

73
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Tired

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Joed

74
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Enjoyable

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Juicy

75
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Very good

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Keen

76
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Very good

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Keen

77
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Squelch

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Kibosh

78
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Neat

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Kippy

79
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All the information

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The lowdown

80
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Someone with tuberculosis

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Lunger

81
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Have sex

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Making whoopee, pitching woo

82
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Ambulance

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Meat wagon

83
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Spiked drink

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Micky, a Micky Finn

84
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Congratulate me!

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MIT me kid!

85
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Gangster’s girlfriend

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Moll

86
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Wow!

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Murder

87
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Wow!

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Murder

88
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You’re full of nonsense!

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Nuts to you!

89
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That’s Corny

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That’s off the cob

90
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Migrant worker from Oklahoma

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Okie

91
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Young Mexican living in the United States

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Pachuco

92
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A friend

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Pally

93
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Formed innocent for a crime

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The patsy

94
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Disagreeable person

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Pill

95
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Ugly person

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Pip

96
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Phonograph record

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A platter

97
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Big and strong

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Plenty rugged

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