1888 Eve. World (NY) 27 July 2/5: So he piked right off to Payne as soon as he reached town.at pike, v.1
1889 Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/3: Charlie’s head came to be filled by one idea [...] to ‘hold up’ stage coaches; to capture pretty girls; in short to become famous as the boldest, baddest man in the wide wild world .at bad, adj.
1889 Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: When a man is drunk as a lord [he] will do all sorts of razzle-dazzle things.at razzle-dazzle, adj.
1889 Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: Razzle-dazzle means a good old-fashioned drunk [...] when a man is on a lark he is razzle-dazzled.at razzle-dazzle, n.
1889 Eve. World (N.Y.) 1 Mar. 1/1: I imbibed a little too much razzle-dazzle juice [...] I was razzle-dazzled.at razzle-dazzle (juice) (n.) under razzle-dazzle, n.
1889 Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: When you are introduced to a man and he steals your watch, he razzle-dazzles you.at razzle-dazzle, v.
1889 (con. 1860s) Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: I first heard ‘razzle-dazzle’ about thrirty years ago as a gag by [...] an Irish comedian [...] [he] played the lover and fooled the ‘ould man’ who he said he had razzle-dazzled.at razzle-dazzle, v.
1889 Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: There is no razzle-dazzling in this office [...] However, if a man gets so tangled up that he does not know what he is doing, he is razzle-dazzled.at razzle-dazzle, v.
1889 Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: There is no razzle-dazzling in this office [...] However, if a man gets so tangled up that he does not know what he is doing, he is razzle-dazzled.at razzle-dazzled, adj.
1889 Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: Razzle-dazzle means a good old-fashioned drunk [...] when a man is on a lark he is razzle-dazzled.at razzle-dazzled, adj.
1889 Eve. World (NY) 29 July 1/4: Metropolitan ‘L’ Road Suits [...] offers made by the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad.at el, n.1
1889 Eve. World (NY) 20 Apr. 2/4: Old Homeboy — [...] Excuse me to-night: I am such a foolish old homebody.at homeboy, n.
1889 Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: People get the razoo or razzle-dazzle when they have been having too good a time.at get the (grand) razz (v.) under razz, n.
1889 Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: It is like a razoo. People get the razoo or razzle-dazzle when they have been having a good time.at razzle, n.
1889 Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: When one has been out all night, painting the town red [...] he is apt to feel ‘rocky’ when he gets homwe — in other words he is razzle-dazzled.at rocky, adj.
1890 Eve. World (NY) 4 Aug. n.p.: Charged the Wrong Clubber. Policeman Mahoney Instead of Sullican will Stand Trial.at clubber, n.
1890 Eve. World (NY) 9 Aug. 2/5: He plaintively asked for the red-eye. ‘No, old man,’ said the bookie, ’you’d better sober up on a nice, cool beer’.at red-eye, n.
1891 Eve. World (NY) 24 July 2/5: So hurry up your cakes as the boy once said to the baker.at hurry up the cakes (v.) under cake, n.1
1891 Eve. World (NY) 3 July 2/2: That’s it — that’s the checker! chuckled the good man as he rubbed his hands together.at checker, the, n.
1892 Eve. World (NY) 12 July 3/5: Several gangs that made a business of drugging and robbing immigrants have been caught [...] The police were enabled to arraign the ‘man catchers’ captured with the ‘knockout’ drops in their possession.at knockout drops, n.
1892 N.Y. Eve. World 13 May n.p.: A novelty in dancing [...] will be seen [...] at Herrmann’s Theatre next week. It is called the ‘Koota-Koota,’ whatever that may mean, and is danced by Avita, an English character actress, who is said to have performed it before the Rajah during her visit to the East Indies.at hootchy-kootchy, n.
1892 Eve. World (N.Y.) 22 Oct. 5/2: Endurance Piano-Playing. Novel match now in progress between two ‘ivory-pounders’.at ivory-pounder (n.) under ivory, n.
1892 Eve. World (NY) 19 Dec. 4/6: It will not matter if it is sometimes just a little apparent [...] that she wears the trousers.at wear the trousers (v.) under trouser, n.
1893 Eve. World (NY) 1 July 5/1: The Parisian illusionist [...] will do his ‘appearing and disappearing’ act.at do a/the disappearing act (v.) under disappearing act, n.
1893 Eve. World (NY) 12 Jan. 3/5: I’m going to give you the all-firedest licking you ever got.at all-fired, adj.
1893 Eve. World (NY) 12 Jan. 5/2: The notorious Tip Little, the confidence and badger game man, the husband of Belle Litttle and companion of Molly Hask, the badger queen of the this city.at badger-man (n.) under badger, n.1
1893 Eve. World (NY) 7 July 5/2: The actress received a present of a burro [...] alias a Rocky Mountain canary bird.at Rocky Mountain canary (bird), n.
1893 Eve. World (NY) 15 Dec. 4/2: The Kibosh and the Skewgee. This thing of skewgeeing cheques is getting to be too miscellaneous. Alderman Parks put the skewgee on a check for $4000 [...] and, owing to the skewgee, the drawee could not get the filthee.at filthy, n.1
1893 Eve. World (NY) 12 Jan. 5/2: The notorious Tip Little, the confidence and badger game man, the husband of Belle Litttle and companion of Molly Hask, the badger queen of the this city.at queen, n.