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Tampa Trib. (FL) 26 Apr. 7/1: [of a white baseball player] ‘Nabs’s’ weakness, in the vernacular is known as ‘nigger golf,’ but in common parlance is just plain, ordinary ‘craps’.at nigger golf (n.) under nigger, n.1
Tampa Trib. (FL) 26 Apr. 7/1: [of a white baseball player] ‘Nabs’s’ weakness, in the vernacular is known as ‘nigger golf,’ but in common parlance is just plain, ordinary ‘craps’. Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 Feb. H1/4: Buck Weaver and Swede Risberg [...] were tin-canned out of organised baseball after the White Sox scandal.at tin-can, v.
Tampa Trib. (FL) 3 Sept. 4/4: Tia Juana [...] is a glorified strip of the old Barbary Coast in hell-roaring days. Everything is here from the 25-cent tent cooch show to the $1000 [...] spin of the roulette wheel.at cooch show (n.) under cooch, n.
Tampa Trib. (FL) 19 June 6/6: ‘Now you must “hold your taters” while I tell you where to put all those vegetables’.at hold your tater (v.) under tater, n.
Tampa Trib. (FL) 30 Mar. 17/1: He landed it thumpingly to Carpenter’s ribs.at thumpingly, adv.
Tampa Trib. (FL) 3 Apr. 6/4: Striver’s Row is harlem’s Mayfair, so named because ‘those who strive’ live there. It is a two block long stretch on West 139th Street and the fortunate dwellers, all successful colored people, live in a fashionable row of houses designed by the late Stanford White.at Strivers’ Row, n.
Tampa Trib. (FL) 7 Feb. 9/2: People will not cooperate in enforcement simply because they refuse to turn snitch on their neighbors.at turn snitch (v.) under snitch, n.1
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/4: albatross: chicken.at albatross, n.1
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/4: army banjo: shovel.at banjo, n.1
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/4: bath tub: motorcycle side car.at bathtub, n.
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/4: belly robber: mess sergeant.at belly burglar (n.) under belly, n.
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/4: butch: medical officer.at butch, n.1
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/4: devil’s piano, machine gun.at Chicago piano (n.) under Chicago, adj.
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/4: Chicago atomizer: automatiic rifle.at Chicago typewriter (n.) under Chicago, adj.
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/4: dog show, foot inspection.at dog show (n.) under dogs, n.1
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/4: draped, intoxicated.at draped, adj.1
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/5: Let her eat, drive at full speed.at eat, v.
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/4: gas house, beer garden.at gas-house (n.) under gas, n.1
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/5: scandal sheet, the monthly payroll.at scandal sheet, n.
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/5: seagull, chicken.at seagull (n.) under sea, n.
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/5: swamped, intoxicated.at swamped, adj.
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/4: bend the throttle: to drive above nomal speed.at bend the throttle (v.) under throttle, n.
‘Soldiers’ Talk’ in Tampa Trib. (FL) 21 July 5/5: whoofin, to tell an improbable story.at woof, v.1
Tampa Trib. (FL) 30 Jan. 10/5: A complete snarl-up in federal government bureaucrac yesterday.at snarl(-up), n.
Tampa Trib. (FL) 7 Dec. 38/4: Just go to the football games [...] and we will find a booze pusher.at booze-pusher (n.) under booze, n.
Tampa Trib. (FL) 6 July 2C/4: Bonnie Prince Charlie has it made. As he turns 21 the royal exchequer will put him on the pad for $480,000 a year.at on the pad under pad, n.5
Tampa Trib. (FL) 13 July 20/2: ‘I swear on a stack of Bibles as high as my head I ain’t done nothin’ I’m ashamed of’.at swear on a stack of Bibles (a mile high) (v.) under swear, v.
Tampa Trib. (FL) 11 Oct. 16/1: The scoreboard [is] slab-dab in the middle of left centre field.at slap-dab, adv.
Tampa Trib. (FL) 29 June 15/3: We know a man [...] refer to his automobile as a ‘struggle-buggy’.at struggle-buggy (n.) under struggle, n.
Tampa Trib. (FL) 4 Aug. 13/1: She wore [...] a white blouse and straw skimmer.at skimmer, n.1
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