1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Why don’t you stop that, Teeny, and come across?’.at come across, v.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘He’s all right,’ Mac said. ‘One of the boys.’ Then to Salmon: ‘The inspector is all right’.at all right, adj.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Go ahead, ask him for it. You’ll get it—in the pig’s neck, you will’.at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘He’s got a yellow girl—and ain’t she a beaut?’.at beaut, n.1
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] [of a criminal scheme] Whoever thought of that one [...] it’s a beaut; you get rid of competition and you make a quarter of million.at beaut, n.1
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘I got to fix that bitch, Martin Lester’.at bitch, n.1
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] [T]here was a raid on a house and the boys [i.e. the police] took the girls up into the rest-room before locking them in.at boys, the, n.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Runs a speakeasy on Sidelle Street near Blake. One of the boys’.at boys, the, n.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘They’ll [i.e. Jewish men] never break in a Jewish girl and they think it’s smart and funny to break in a Gentile girl’.at break (someone) in (v.) under break, v.1
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] She [...] slapped my hand away. ‘Nix, busyhands,’ she said.at busyhands (n.) under busy, adj.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘I want an address; I got a number. It’s a private line.’ ‘And get the can tied to me? Nix’.at tie the can to (v.) under can, n.1
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘And one chirp out of you, “Smirker,” and you make an appearance under your own name’.at chirp, n.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘[H]e comes bangin’ on my door, tearin’ his hair and claimin’ it was crap’.at crap, n.1
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘I don’t know what you’re croaking about’.at croak, v.1
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Cut it out and sit down’.at cut that out! (excl.) under cut out, v.3
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Shut up, you lousy dopey,’ James said. ‘I’m a dopey! Why—you lousy—’.at dopie, n.1
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘[Y]ou seldom get ‘a dose’ from a paid harlot, only from one who’s pleasure bent’.at dose, n.1
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] The opening of the theatres and night-clubs and the return of the crooks, gamblers and whores kept me downtown.at downtown, n.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘“Hizzoner” will be here. [...] All dressed up like a house on fire’.at dressed up like a lighthouse (adj.) under dressed, adj.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘What you feedin’ me, Cap?’ ‘What the hell do you mean?’.at feed, v.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Don’t let on I told you, or the finger’ll be on me in a minute’.at finger, n.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Stein got his last night.’ ‘That baby was riding for a flop. How’d they hand it to him?’.at flop, n.5
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust [ebook] ‘We found him [...] Boarding-house on Landis Street. He took the pipe’.at take the gas route (v.) under gas, n.1
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘When I get as old as you...’ ‘Don’t get gay. I can go you time for time’.at get gay (with) (v.) under gay, adj.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘When I get as old as you...’ ‘Don’t get gay. I can go you time for time’.at go, v.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘Stein got his last night.’ ‘That baby was riding for a flop. How’d they hand it to him?’.at hand it out (v.) under hand, v.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘If they get hep, good night!’.at get hep (v.) under hep, adj.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘“Hizzoner” will be here. [...] All dressed up like a house on fire’.at Hizzoner, n.
1931 P.J. Wolfson Bodies are Dust (2019) [ebook] ‘I don’t think there’s going to be a hell of a lot of holler about Stein.’.at holler, n.