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Hustler 118: Man didn’t look profitable, but she said he had a good deal of money, and that he wanted to turn a trick with her.at turn a trick, v.2
Hustler 118: Man didn’t look profitable, but she said he had a good deal of money, and that he wanted to turn a trick with her. Hustler 36: I messed around with those guys [i.e. criminal accomplices] off and on until I went to jail for the first time. Later on I came back to them again.at mess about, v.
Hustler 70: There’s vomit all over the bed, all in my hat, and that’s sittin’ ace-deuce [f.n.] on my head! [f.n. Low and to one side].at ace-deuce, adv.
Hustler 146: So the judge continued the case, and we layed up in the Bridewell [Chicago’s House of Correction] for a day.at lay back, v.
Hustler 191: She just turned right around, bammed the register, and handed me the money!at bam, v.2
Hustler 174: I spent six months up there goin’ back and forth to court before I got my time. I went to bat [f.n.] on the sale first. [f.n. Go to bat—go to trial] [ibid.] 182: Next day we went to bat, and got four days apiece.at go to bat (v.) under bat, v.
Hustler 125: [T]here’s a doctor there. Now this guy got a legitimate office but he’s a bootlegger on the side. If a woman goin’ to have a baby and don’t want to have it, call him. He was givin’ girls drugs too that was dope fiends.at bootlegger, n.
Hustler 78: ‘Your honor, we’d like to break this down from grand larceny to petit larceny’.at break, v.6
Hustler 152: Now look here! Just check yourself from now on! Don’t put yourself in a position no more to get beat! Just forget it!at check oneself (v.) under check, v.
Hustler 191: This girl was flirtin’, but she wasn’t sayin’ nothin’! You know she was [...] givin’ a little ‘come on’ with her eyes.at come-on, n.
Hustler 196: ‘[R]ay feelin’’ [...] where you don’t plan what you’re goin’ a do, you just go out and catch whatever you can. You take more chances than you should, too. They also call this ‘cowboyin’,’ but ‘cowboyin’’ really means not taking as many chances.at cowboy, v.
Hustler 37: I went behind the counter to shake down the register.at shake down, v.
Hustler 164: [T]he cop in the squad [car] had circled the block, and [...] he pulled up beside me, and throwed his gun out the window on me! at throw down on (v.) under throw down, v.
Hustler 118: [W]hen your [sic] doin’ the drag you’re never suppose to have no two guys or three guys walkin’ down the streets together. You’re suppose to have them located so that all of you meet at one given spot.at drag, n.1
(con. 1950s) Hustler 116: At this time in that neighborhood they had a special type of hustlin’ called ‘draggin’. That mean, we’d go a certain distance out of the neighborhood and we’d rob everybody we’d meet.at dragging, n.
Hustler 194: It was considered by hustlers a duck [f.n.] ‘cause it was on a dark corner, there usually wasn’t no peoples in sight, and the traffic was slow [f.n. Duck—a place that’s extremely easy to rob].at sitting duck, n.
Hustler 70: I don’t know where, until today, I don’t know where I got this money from! [...] I was just dumbafied! [Ibiid.] 99: Then she started takin’ off her clothes. Took off everything but her brassière and panties! I was standin’ there dumbafied.at dumbafied, adj.
Hustler 157: [H]e [i.e. a confederate] was bettin’ on the side, ’cause he knew I could beat this guy. If I’d give him the eye to go on and bet I was goin’ a beat the sucker! at give someone the eye (v.) under eye, n.
Hustler 31: I guess Callie was feelin’ pretty good ‘cause she had been drinkin’, and she set on my lap and kissed me.at feel good (v.) under feel, v.
Hustler 192: See, it’s not good to run down the streets. If you run, you’re puttin’ the finger on yourself.at put the finger on (v.) under finger, n.
Hustler 80: He had got caught for sellin’ some guy some dope, but he fixed it up [f.n.] and was fined five dollars [f.n. Paid off the police].at fix, v.1
Hustler 42: [of streetcars] [W]e didn’t have no car, we’d go on the ‘L’—flip the ‘L,’ and come back.at flip, v.1
Hustler 179: I told him that I wasn’t no punchin’ bag and that I wanted him to get up off me. [...] If he don’t get up off you, you suppose to do somethin’ to him. If you don’t they’ll think you’re a pushover.at get up off (v.) under get up, v.1
Hustler 32: Now there was some guys who was just like me, and we didn’t care what the others did. I would get with those guys when I was around there.at get with, v.
Hustler 144: I got a funny book in my pocket. It was about how crime don’t pay. It was payin’ all to hell then!at all to hell under hell, n.
Hustler 33: I didn’t like her too hot, but I guess she was all right.at hot, adv.
Hustler 66: My cousin had come and took her, and got her drunk. Got her half iced.at iced, adj.3
Hustler 183: ‘You’re just jitter-buggin’ [f.n.] down there with them three bricks. I bet that’s how the police caught you. You were too lazy to run!’ [f.n. To jitter-bug—to fool around].at jitterbug, v.
Hustler 70: Now my pocket was jugged with money. I had over three hundred dollars, and most of it was in small bills.at jug, v.8
Hustler 175: I took her wallet, and I had to go down in her little titties and get her dope, ’cause she wouldn’t give that up. We went around to an alley and kicked her out.at kick out, v.2
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