frisco v.
1. (US gang) to act in a provocative manner.
Fellow Countrymen (1937) 398: They razzed him. He friscoed for the lads, snapping his fingers and singing I’ll be there to get you in a push-cart, honey [...] When they play those jelly-roll blues, / To-morrow night at the Darktown Strutters’ Ball. | ‘Merry Clouters’ in
2. to stutter.
From Gags to Riches 223: ‘I f-f-found it in the subway,’ she Frisco’d. (*Frisco, or pull a Frisco. To stutter—after Joe Frisco). |