1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 177: [F]ive bucks was par and twenty was just about the top she could ever get from [a client] and that only for an all night stand.at all-nighter, n.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 170: It was in the bag. It was a lead pipe cinch.at in the bag under bag, n.1
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 10: [T]he punk would doss down under one of the bally platforms.at bally, n.1
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 7: [T]he bassdrum call to bally, try your luck, mister, pitch till you win.at ballyhoo, v.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 29: [of a carnival show] ‘[T]he Mystery of Sex show he used to be barker fo’”.at barker, n.1
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 32: ‘If this was a con game setup instead of a bashing you’d be my first choice [of suspect]’.at bashing, n.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 48: This hangover [...] won’t start to go away until I [...] force myself to take a drink of dog hair.at hair of the dog (that bit one), n.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 144: Dr. Magus picked up the whisky bottle [...] ‘Have one, Sammy. [...] Only remember this—he didn’t tell you exactly how big those brinies could be’.at briny, n.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 122: [D]uring the depression, he’d been on the bum or on the grift.at on the bum (adj.) under bum, v.3
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 9: He’d make a point of giving Doc as wide a berth as possible while he was [...] at the carney.at carney, n.2
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 120: It would take slick con work, a really good song and dance.at con, adj.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 147: ‘She wouldn’t slap me or call copper, would she?’.at call copper (v.) under copper, n.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 9: Trixie Connor [...] she put out for cash and [...] she’d be a sure thing.at date, n.1
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 27: ‘You didn’t go outside once, not even to go to the doniker?’.at donicker, n.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 10: [T]he punk would doss down under one of the bally platforms.at doss down (v.) under doss, v.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 123: What he needed, he thought, was a good drunk. A two-weeks knockdown-dragout drunk.at drag-out, n.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 125: Trixie wanted [five dollars] for a quick flop and twenty to spend the night, so he hadn’t had Trixie too often.at flop, n.5
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 44: People gave you hard money in change out of folding money.at folding, n.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 142: [of indigestion] ‘By all means, if your stomach will stand the gaff’.at stand the gaff (v.) under gaff, n.2
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 71: ‘Joe Linder’ll have to show you the gaff on that rope tie trick’.at gaff, n.3
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 32: It’s carney tradition to kid an unborn show man about the Goodyear trade marks on the kiesters of his pickled punks, but it’s just a stock gag.at gag, n.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 15: ‘[T]his is getaway money. I can get away from that son of a bitch now’.at getaway money (n.) under getaway, n.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 80: Neither [...] would dare even suggest glomming onto the money and dividing it.at glom, v.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 40: She’d [...] told him to go to the grab joint, not all the way to the chow top but just to the grab joint, and get her a coney island sandwich.at grab joint (n.) under grab, v.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 122: [D]uring the depression, he’d been on the bum or on the grift.at grift, n.
1953 F. Brown Madball (2019) 29: ‘Talker for, Lieutenant. More specifically grinder for, since a show that operates continuously and without a bally doesn’t require a spiel’.at grinder, n.1