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[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: ‘Pretty Tib’ is trying to string a young man too good for her.
at string (along), v.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Lize Bemis [...] is a rough Mary Ann, and rather partial to a Green moll. He man left her on account of her too free talk about doughnuts.
at mary ann, n.1
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: A surgical operation performed on her nasal organ to remove those two Juniper berries which now ornament it.
at gin blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: How much did Stephen Ashton make out of his brother Joe by blowing about his travelling with women?
at blow, v.1
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Broken-nosed Jemmie, alias the fighter of 6th avenue, is a blower and a cur .
at blower, n.2
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: [I]nstead of bumming round Moses for his Medford, hash, and chance to fish wipes out of his customers’ pockets.
at bum, v.3
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: We have the names of those bummers that hang around 17th street [...] every night .
at bummer, n.2
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Charlie Jones brags that his bush-whackery at 68 Andover street cannot be disturbed. We shall see.
at bushwhackery (n.) under bushwhack, v.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Dover Mary and Clipper Hawkes are ‘rum ’uns’. Business is so bad that both of these buzzards are thinking of emigrating.
at buzzard, n.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: He expects [the pold woman] soon to croak.
at croak, v.2
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: The miserable [...] woman we have appropriately designated ‘Croppy Louise’ on account of the loss of her hair.
at croppie, n.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Nathaniel Howard keeps an awful crib [...] If any man can stand beside one of his bummers [...] without getting crumby, we are good for a bottle of wine.
at crummy, adj.2
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Lize Bemis [...] is a rough Mary Ann, and rather partial to a Green moll. He man left her on account of her too free talk about doughnuts.
at doughnut, n.1
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: If [he] only knew what a skunk he had chosen for a friend he would resort to the ‘drop game’.
at drop game, n.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: James Brennan (4-11-44), [...] Jew Smidt and a few others.
at four-eleven-forty-four, n.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Kate Ely says she will fiddle with any man as much as she likes.
at fiddle, v.1
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: [I]nstead of bumming round Moses for his Medford, hash, and chance to fish wipes out of his customers’ pockets.
at fish, v.2
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Joe D—s thinks he is ‘some’ on the banjo. He has been getting his ‘frying pan’ silver-plated.
at frying pan, n.2
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Stop [...] trying to be ‘gallus’ on seven dollars a month.
at gallows, adj.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Where is the white coat? [...] has some gay moll made a skirt of it?
at gay moll (n.) under gay, adj.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Swine are not allowed within the limits of the city [...] why is old Jane Winslow allowed to harbor such trashy old grunters as Rose (French for Biddie) Brady, Dutch Maria and Charity Julie?
at grunter, n.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: John Watson [...] can make more money by paper-hanging than playing penny-ante.
at paper hanger, n.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Whiskerando Randell, of Mose Pearson’s hash factory, had better [...] take his wife out of that brothel.
at hash factory (n.) under hash, n.1
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Away, thou dirty heifer, to the foulest corner of Barren Island.
at heifer, n.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: [I]f you value that big gin-blomossed horn of yours.
at horn, n.2
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: The follow hounds are warned fro the corner of Jane street and 8th avenue: — Corkey Jack, Bugs, Bill the sucker, Brownhorse .
at hound, n.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: A movement is on foot to send her back to the Island, where they don’t furnish the ladies with furs to keep out the cold.
at Island, the, n.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Clam soup, which he obtains [...] in exchange for his kill-me-quick rum.
at kill-me-quick (n.) under kill, v.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: That crowd of dungarees [...] must scatter, or expect knuckle sauce.
at knuckle sauce (n.) under knuckle, n.
[US] Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Pooh! he can’t like a one year old infant .
at lick, v.1
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