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Gee - A term used by teamsters to
their horses and oxen, when they wish them to go faster. "To Gee”
means to agree.
General Treat - A general treat is
a treat of a glass of liquor bought by one person in a tavern to the
whole company present. Buying a round of drinks.
Gerrymandering - To arrange the
political divisions, so that in an election, one party may obtain an
advantage over its opponent, even though the latter may possess a
majority of the votes in the State.
Get a Wiggle On
- Hurry.
Get Gaited - Get
going in a hurry. Gait refers to the rate a horse moves, which is far
faster, so "get going."
Get it in the Neck
- Get cheated, misled, bamboozled.
Get my/your
back up - To get angry. "Don't get your back
up, he was only joking."
Get Shed of -
Get rid of.
Get the Mitten
- To be rejected by a lover. "Looks like Blossom gave poor Buck the
mitten."
Get The Wrong Pig By The Tail - To
make a mistake in selecting a person for any purpose. "I got the wrong
pig by the tail in debating with that particular man.”
G'hal - A rowdy
girl, reveler or ruffian girl.
Gig - Spur a
horse.
Ginnin' About
- Moving around fast.
Girls of the Line
- Prostitutes.
Gitty-up - Go,
Move. A term used to get the horse to start moving.
Give Him Jessy - To give a
flogging.
Give the Mitten
- When a lady turns down a man’s proposal or discards him.
Glut - A wooden wedge.
The Go - The mode, the fashion.
"This is all the go.”'
Go It Strong - To perform an act
with vigor or without scruple.
Goat Meat -
Venison killed out of season.
Go Boil Your Shirt
- Take a hike, get lost, bug off.
Go Heeled
- To carry a six-shooter, also "packing iron."
Goings On - Behavior, actions,
conduct.
Gone Coon
- A
goner, past recover, a lost man. Also called a gone sucker and a Gone
Goose.
Gone Goslin -
Done for, doomed.
Gone Up the Flume
- Yield, lost, dead.
Goney - A stupid fellow.
Gospel Mill
- A church.
Gospel Sharp
- A preacher.
Gotham - New
York City.
Go the Big Figure or Whole Figure -
To go to the fullest extent in the attainment of any object, do things
on a large scale.
Got the
Bulge - Have the advantage. "We'll get the
bulge on him, and take his gun away."
Go the Whole Hog - Out and out in
favor of anything. A softened form of the phrase is to go the entire
animal.
Go Through The Mill - A metaphor
alluding to grain which has been through the mill.
Grab a Root
- Eat a meal, especially a potato.
Grab the Apple - Taking hold of the
saddle horn to avoid falling off. Also called "grab the nubbin." In
either case, this was not something a self-respecting
cowboy
wanted to be caught doing.
Grail - Small particles of any
kind.
Granger
- A derogatory term for farmer.
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