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Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 4 Oct. 8/3: How’s your box.at how’s your box? under box, n.1
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 4 Oct. 8/3: How’s your box. Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 13 Sept. 12/2: When the Cotton Club opens in September, even sepias with the necessary dough-re-mi won’t witness the [missing text] unless they’re guest of some of the stars.at do-re-mi, n.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: biffer—Young lady who may have all the education, money and personality in the world but she is ever so homely.at biffer, n.2
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 1 Nov. 4/1: Please if possible raise the standard of your magazine by eliminating such words as ‘pig meat’ and other ‘buggy’ material.at buggy, adj.3
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: rug cut — A newly coined expression describing the apparently savage machination of the latest edition of the revision of the popular ‘Lindy Hop.’.at rug cut, v.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: sub deb—One of these sweet young things who just isn’t of age but whom the older boys will be ‘gunning’ for on the day of the coming out party.at sub-deb, n.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: debbie—Commonly called debutante, and is one who had followed the usual ritual concerning decorum and mannerisms prior to the coming out party and is now definitely in circulation for the desirable company, but her desires usually run toward the older gentry with cash.at debbie, n.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: dig my pad — Go home to my bed.at dig, v.3
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: dig you — See you later on.at dig you (later) under dig, v.3
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: digit baron — A biggie in the business of ‘numbers’ usually possessing a fair amount of wealth.at digit baron (n.) under digits, n.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: killer diller — Favorite expression of musicians when one of their tunes appeals to the ear in an unusual manner that has a tendency to cause excessive jubilance among the dancers and listeners.at killer-diller, adj.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: swingeroo—A dance that is a ‘killer-diller’ in every sense of the word both musically and pulchritudinally, not to mention the liquid phase.at -eroo, sfx
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 3 Jan. 18/2: Swing Sessions, an outgrowth of the currently popular music played by the ‘jam units’ have outmoded to an extent the former type of close ‘bunny-hug’ dancing that was the bane of frat house hops.at frat, n.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: gander—Meaning to look, and look real hard so as to repeat the details to the first news-hawk you meet.at gander, v.2
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: unhitch—Same as reno-vate, meaning to get a new lease on life from the divorce courts, and freedom from your wife.at hitched, adj.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: jive—Sometimes spelled jibe; meaning to dwell intently upon an effusive exhortation along some particular line minus sincerity.at jive, v.1
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: lush—Meaning liquor, thus a lush hound is the same a habitual inebriate.at lush hound (n.) under lush, n.1
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: dig my pad—Go home to my bed.at pad, n.2
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 24 Jan. 19/2: [cartoon caption — wife to husband] I’ll show you who wears the pants around here!!at wear the pants (v.) under pants, n.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: pashed up—Quite in the dithers over a lady of your choice whose indifference keeps you awake nites and causes you to drink excessively.at pashed up, adj.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: watering places — The most popular eat, drink and dine places along any stem, usually catering especially to satiation of the thirst.at watering place, n.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: solid—An expression that eliminates the use of superfluous words to indicate that everything is exceedingly well with the speaker.at solid!, excl.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 June 19/2: SWING ADDICTS [...] had their fill of ‘killer dillers,’ ‘solid senders,’ ‘slap,’ ‘rush,’ and ‘lush’ ditties when New York’s radio station WNEW and Martin Block staged their first open-air swing carnival.at solid sender (n.) under solid, adj.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: stach my frame—See dig my pad [i.e. go home to bed].at stash, v.1
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: watering places—The most popular eat, drink and dine places along any stem, usually catering especially to satiation of the thirst.at stem, n.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: on the turn — Out for an evening of unlimited sport that includes all of the spots that are most frequented, with any hour the next morning seeing you home.at on the turn under turn, n.3
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 21 Feb. 11/1: unhep — Any individual who impresses one as not being a person who really knows just what it is all about, very briefly a tenderfoot or greenhorn.at unhip, adj.
Flash! (Wash., D.C.) 15 Feb. 25/1: That’s what we called it when we heard about the ‘pink slips’ party the lads threw up in Harlem who had received their (Form 403) pink slips, which meant the end of their project jobs.at pink slip (n.) under pink, adj.
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