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N.Y. Dly Herald 24 May 2/2: It’s a devlish genteele place too — nobody goes there but what’s first cut.at buck of the first head (n.) under buck, n.1
N.Y. Dly Herald 24 May 2/2: It’s a devlish genteele place too — nobody goes there but what’s first cut. N.Y. Dly Herald 24 May 2/2: Both parties were well cut — Silk with a knife and Erskine with liquor.at cut, adj.1
N.Y. Dly Herald 24 May 2/2: Three spruce apprentices, rigged out in their Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.at Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes (n.) under Sunday go-to-meeting, adj.
N.Y. Dly Herald 16 Oct. 4/1: An atomosphere tained with the effluvia of Jersey lightning and tobacco smoke.at Jersey lightning (n.) under Jersey, adj.
N.Y. Dly Herald 24 May 2/2: Three starched exquisites were walking down Broadway [...] Each was the pink of pertness and puppyism.at pink, n.
N.Y. Dly Herald 24 May 2/2: Three starched exquisites were walking down Broadway [...] Each was the pink of pertness and puppyism.at puppyism (n.) under puppy, n.
N.Y. Dly Herald 6 Oct. 4/2: Here Mr Dry Stick arose and interupted the speaker by saying that if he wanted to be immortal he had better be original.at dry stick (n.) under stick, n.
N.Y. Dly Herald 1 Apr. 2/4: They wished him to engage in what is called the thimble game.at thimble game (n.) under thimble, n.
N.Y. Dly Herald 10 Mar. 4/1: You would bet your life upon it that he had not remembered the speech of yesterday.at bet one’s (sweet) life (v.) under bet, v.
N.Y. Dly Herald 13 Apr. 2/5: Above is their stamping ground, which they do not wish to be made too familiar to the pale face.at stamping ground(s), n.1
N.Y. Dly Herald 18 May 1/5: Two men who have long been known to the police as keepers of ‘touch’ houses, or, ‘panel thieves’.at touch house (n.) under touch, n.1
N.Y. Dly Herald 18 Jan. 2/2: It is no uncommon thing for the ‘stool-pigeon’ to accompany the rogies in the commission of the crime, and when the oficers make the arrests, who are previously notifed by the ‘stool-pigeon’, the latter worthy is allowed to escape.at stool-pigeon, n.1
N.Y. Dly Herald 21 Apr. 4/2: The press gangs in the Southern States are called ‘shoulder tappers’. When a man in the street is tapped on the shoulder it means that he must repair immediately to the nearest camp.at shoulder-tapper (n.) under shoulder, n.
N.Y. Dly Herald 9 Sept. 6/3: ‘Here, tale a glass of claret [...] light another cigar, and let us S.O. (switch off)’.at S.O., v.
N.Y. Dly Herald 9 Sept. 6/3: Clowns out of luck [...] and ready cash are sharing a pewter of ‘six-ball’.at six-ball (n.) under six, adj.
N.Y. Dly Herald 9 Sept. 6/3: Mr David G. Broome, confidential clerk of a large leather house in ‘the swamp’.at Swamp, the, n.
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