1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 44: ‘Pinknose’ is breast. ‘Blisters’ is another synonym for the same...‘Oh what blisters she’s got!’.at blister, n.1
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 43: ‘The Boston version’ [...] ‘Clean it up, the cops are out there’.at Boston version (n.) under Boston, adj.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 16: The first teaser flashed a breast. A second topped her with a suggestive song. A third added the bump and the grind.at bump, n.1
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 41: [of a ‘dirty joke’] Jake can tell dirty jokes without offense [...] he’s gotten away with ‘cacky’ scenes by making them cute instead of dirty.at cacky, adj.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 15: ‘The tease must have been a click the first time out’.at click, n.4
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 61: A guy’s from Dixie — Performer who’s no good.at from Dixie (adj.) under Dixie, n.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 31: — There are a few dykes [in burlesque] [...] Lesbians’.at dyke, n.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 41: The ‘crazy’ woman who came in to pick lemons off the wall put the finisher on him . When she emerged from the wings [...] he emitted an involuntary prize fighter’s ‘Ugh!’.at finisher, n.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 43: If the straight man has false teeth and globbers his lines, he’s a ‘flannel mouth’.at flannel mouth, n.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 10: Carmen [...] flashes her chest [...] Carmen is small and slender. She hasn’t much to flash.at flash, v.1
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 29: Paul, who sells the rhinestone ‘gadgets’ — otherwise G-strings.at gadget, n.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 38: The fact that there’s practically no audience turnover [...] make it tough as hell for comedians who are playing a grind house.at grind house, n.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 37: The strippers are ‘hip-throwers’.at hip-thrower (n.) under hip, n.3
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 43: A straight man, when he’s no good, is ‘from hunger’...he starves the comic to death.at from hunger (adj.) under hunger, n.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 37: The audience — anyone who comes to burlesque show — is a ‘jerk’. [...] It’s the jerk who keeps on applauding for the stripper to come back [...] It’s the jerk who snaps candid-camera shots from the front row.at jerk, n.1
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 37: Jerks get backstage [...] and ask questions for ‘jerky reasons’.at jerky (adj.) under jerk, n.1
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 33: ‘Since her guy got knocked off she hasn’t been seen around’.at knocked off, adj.2
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 19: [A]ctresses in the legit [...] Most of them could never make the grade as strippers.at on the legit (adj.) under legit, n.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 43: A straight man, when he’s no good, [...] may be a ‘liver head’...‘he can’t learn nothin’’.at liver head (n.) under liver, n.1
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 45: The Minsky boys are reputed to have cut up a melon of 25 G’s a year, beside their regular salary.at melon, n.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 44: The straight man always has one epithet with which to squelch a comic...‘mountaineer.’ Many of them got their training in what Variety calls the broscht [sic] circuit, the Jewish boarding houses in the Catskills.at mountaineer, n.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 33: Petty larceny crooks, book-makers, numbers men, grifters.at numbers-banker (n.) under numbers, the, n.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 44: ‘Pinknose’ is breast. ‘Blisters’ is another synonym for the same...‘Oh what blisters she’s got!’.at pinknose (n.) under pink, adj.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 31: ‘There’s a lot of reefer fiends’ [...] ‘That’s marijuana cigarettes’.at reefer-head (n.) under reefer, n.1
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 33: Another stripper’s boy friend was taken for a ride and dumped into Long Island Sound.at take for a ride (v.) under ride, n.
1938 H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 37: ‘Burlesque isn’t that bad. . . but it’s certainly the s.r. of show business’.at s.r., n.