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Make a Mash - Make a hit, impress someone. (Usually a female.) "Buck's tryin' to make a mash on that new girl."
Make A Raise - To raise, procure, obtain.
Making Meat - On the Western prairies,
cutting into thin slices the boneless parts of the buffalo, or other meat, and
drying them in the wind or sun. Meat thus prepared may be preserved for years
without salt.
Make Tracks - To leave, to walk away. A
figurative expression of Western origin.
Makins - Tobacco and papers used to roll cigarettes.
Man-a-hanging - A man having difficulties.
Man At The Pot - According to camp etiquette, when a cowboy gets up to refill his cup from the coffee pot hanging over the campfire, if someone shouts, "Man at the pot!" the man at the coffee pot is required to fill everyone's cup.
Manner Born, To the - A natural. "He's a horseman to the manner born."
Man for Breakfast - A murdered body in the streets at dawn. Commonplace in the early days of Los Angeles and Denver. Also used to describe certain saloons when men were killed the night before. "Lambert’s only had two men for breakfast.”
Man-trap - Cow dung in the fields, or, a
widow.
To Marble - To move off, be off, go, as, "If
you do that again, you must marble.”
Marinos - Spurs.
Marm - A corruption of the word madam or
ma'am.
Marooning - To go marooning. To have a party
or picnic.
Mary - An effeminate homosexual.
Mashed - In love.
Mauks - Derogatory term for women of the
lower class or prostitutes.
Mauled - Very drunk.
Maverick - An unbranded calf.
May Can - May be able
to.
Marble Orchard -
Graveyard
Mealer - A partial abstainer who drinks
liquor only during meals.
Mean - Bad quality.
Mexican Strawberries - Dried beans.
Milestonemonger - Some who likes to roam, a
tramp.
Milling - Fighting.
Mind, Have a - To have a notion, to be willing.
To Mind - To recollect, remember or to take
care of..
Missionate - To act as a missionary.
Mitten - When a gentleman is jilted by a lady, or is
discarded by one to whom he has been paying his addresses he is said to have got
the mitten.
Miss one's figure - to miss a change, to make
a mistake.
Mitten, Get or Give - Turned down by a lady after proposing.
Miss Nancy - A name given to an effeminate
man.
Mizzle - To run away, to abscond.
Mochilla - A rectangular leather saddlebag popularized by the Pony Express.
Mockered - Dirtied, defiled.
Molled - In the company of a woman.
Molly - An effeminate young man.
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