1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 15: Riding the train back from Alexandria or ‘Alex,’ we saw many camels.at Alex, n.
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 21: Jumbo Reilly was the bouncer, and efficient at his work. One night, Jumbo flung Halfpint out, demonstrating the bouncing art at its best.at bounce, v.1
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 22: When Marilyn [Monroe] joined us [...] she looked extremely bouncy in a low-cut dress.at bouncy, adj.
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 22: Silver dollars are dumped into garbage cans in the gambling houses on razzle-dazzle Fremont Street, the main drag.at razzle-dazzle, adj.
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 11: The Swedish equivalent of the American ‘prohibition agent’ is joked about just as we used to laugh about our ‘dry dicks’.at dick, n.5
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 22: Wilbur Clark, operator of the Desert Inn, [...] says Las Vegas has them all faded.at fade, v.1
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 23: Jim indicated his diamond cane, diamond glasses, diamond zipper, and diamond teeth—‘falsies’ which he wears for show.at falsies, n.
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 11: In Denmark, where there are so many beautiful blond women [...] there are about as many finagling husbands as you would find anywhere else.at finagle, v.
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 19: ‘I would like you to let me have $150’ [...] Flash! I did not give him the $150.at flash, n.1
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 46: ‘I think I’ll be after goin’ down to the Royal Hibernian Hotel bar for a drop.’ ‘Sure, and your old hairpin will be after goin’ with ye’.at hairpin, n.
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 22: Such was the concentration of a woman playing blackjack near by that she looked down at the corpse [...] and in the same breath said to the blackjack dealer, ‘Hit me’.at hit me! (excl.) under hit, v.
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 76: ‘They only have races Wednesday and Sunday. I wish they had them oftener. They’d help me kill my day’.at kill, v.
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 22: The streets of ‘Lost Wages,’ Nevada, are not like the streets of any other American city today.at Lost Wages, n.
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 4: We each got nicked a shilling—fourteen cents—to get in.at nick, v.1
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 207: They taught you all about the International Date Line in school, but if you’re as retarded as I am, you still don’t quite believe it.at retarded, adj.
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 6: They kiss a lady’s hand all the way up to the elbow, and if they see yes-yes in her eyes, all the way up to the shoulder. [...] South of that is considered out of bounds.at south, adj.
1953 E. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 20: [W]e found it difficult to explain to him why we didn’t have up moolah.at up, prep.