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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

to outstorm

to overhaul

to parmateer

to peak

to peke

to pettifog

to plank

to play possum

to play second fiddle

to poke fun

to pony up

to progress

to pull foot

to pull up stakes

to put on airs

to put out

to qualify

to rail it

to raise a bead

to raise one's bristles

to rake and scrape

to re-charter

to re-insure

to re-investigate

to re-land

to re-loan

to re-open

to re-ship

to realize

to reckon

to retire

to retrospect

to ride

to rights

to roil

to room

to rope in

to row up

to row up salt river

to run one's face

to sag

to scrouge

to see home

to see how the cat jumps

to see the elephant

to serve up

to set by

to set much by

to set her cap for him

to set store by

to settle

to settle one's hash

to shake a stick at

to shell out

to shin

to shirk

to shoal

to shoot one's grandmother

to shut up

to signalize

to similate

to sizzle

to skew

to skink

to sky a copper

to slab off

to sleep

to slew

to slue

to slick up

to slope

to smoke

to smoutch

to smouze

to smutch

to snake

to snake out

to snicker

to snigger

to sniggle

to snoop

to snort

to snuggle

to soak

to sock

to spark it

to spat the hands

to speechify

to sport

to spout

to spruce up

to squale

to square up

to squat

to squib

to squiggle

to squirm

to stand in

to stand in hand

to stand up to the rack