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[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 10 Aug. n.p.: Margaret and her ‘cousin Peter’ were on their way to a bed house’ [and] the girl received a V for her trouble [...] Mag has slept with a male friend at an assignation house .
at bed-house (n.) under bed, n.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug, 5/1: Samuel’s ‘female academy’ [...] takes up so much of his attention that he rather neglects his hashery.
at academy, n.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 8/3: That miserable, round-headed, bull beef selling Paddy.
at bull-beef, n.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug, n.p.: The cells are characterized as ‘black holes,’ totally unfit to confine any criminal.
at black hole (n.) under black, adj.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 6/3: Hugh G—y, alias Comet, had better take those blossoms off his nose, and keep away from that ‘blister’ of his.
at blossom, n.2
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 6/1: Break o’ Day Houses [...] are generally to be found in the immediate vicinity of the markets [i.e. in NY] [...] The doors are never closed and business is constantly in progress. There is a liquor bar and a large [...] restaurant. The bar does the most business.
at break-o’-day drum (n.) under break, v.1
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 7/3: The clerks in a certain freight office [in Rochester, NY] had better [...] keep out of a certain brick house close by.
at brickhouse, n.1
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 6/1: The ‘bums’ around the stove suddenly make amovement of alarm.
at bum, n.3
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 8/2: I will expose him in a way he won’t like. Boy, your cake is Dow.
at cake is dough under cake, n.1
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 7/2: The little nigger gal who lives in the shanty can.
at can, n.1
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 6/3: We will meet him [...] at the crib in Thomas street, in the basement.
at crib, n.1
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 8/3: Be careful, bummers — you are all known and your names will be given if you do not dry up.
at dry up, v.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 8/1: [of a presidential candidate] Another’s fame must yet be sung; — / I know the ‘faker’ well.
at faker, n.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 7/2: George B— took his ‘moll’ out to Coney Island last Sunday. Gay boy on four dollars a week.
at gay boy under gay, adj.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 5/1: Tom Hastings [...] fed him [...] from the scrapings of the plates in Mose Pearson’s ‘hash factory’.
at hash factory (n.) under hash, n.1
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug, 5/1: Samuel’s ‘female academy’ [...] takes up so much of his attention that he rather neglects his hashery.
at hash-house, n.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 6/2: Stale hen fruit was not to be had [...] for which the rascals may thank a considerate Providence.
at hen fruit (n.) under hen, n.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 5/2: Ada Burns and Mike Agin have opened a street house.
at street house (n.) under house, n.1
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 8/1: Bo knocks Dr Brandreth in the shade in making pills, for he has a superior size ‘lemon’ [...] Go in, Bo; may your nasal organ never be less.
at lemon, n.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 8/4: [of illicitly distilled rum] [T]o inform the thirsty waiting souls that their ‘lightning’ was ‘in quod’.
at lightning, n.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 5/1: Bill J— [...] must be in luck while he is on his loaf, for he has been constantly drunk.
at loaf, n.1
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug, n.p.: Fatty Twitchell has got disgusted with Lize King, and left her. He says she was too much ‘on the make’.
at on the make under make, n.2
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 6/3: Fatty M—an, what were you you doing with that girl [...] in the alley? Anything to be made, eh, Fatty?
at make, v.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 5/1: Does Marm H., of Warren street, consider our notice of last week as a good advertisement.
at Marm, n.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 5/2: Ned Robinson, the moak piano player [ibid.] 6/3: ‘Dutchy’ [...] visits a moak hole [...] as he will not be allowed to enter a place where white people are, being only one degree less dark than the genuine moak.
at moke, n.2
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 7/4: This hag has got two mots in her den [...] ever ready to accommodate greenies and land sharks.
at mot, n.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 8/3: Seth [...] refuses to receive a single cent in payment for beef-steak. However he demands twelve cents for the same, as usual, with murphies.
at murphy, n.1
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. n.p.: People do say that he is traveling on his muscle. I don’t see how they know [...] Mose W’s wife is also on her muscle.
at on the muscle under muscle, n.
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 6/2: The Negro Minstrelsy was then attempted by half a dozen white niggers.
at nigger, n.1
[US] N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 18 Aug. 6/4: Edw—d B—s, the Leonard street red nob.
at nob, n.1
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