Green’s Dictionary of Slang

frisco v.

[from US vaudevillian Joe Frisco (1889–1958) whose act was based on stuttering]

1. (US gang) to act in a provocative manner.

[US]J.T. Farrell ‘Merry Clouters’ in 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.

2. to stutter.

[US]J. Adams 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).