Green’s Dictionary of Slang
‘O. Henry’ ‘The World & the Door’ Whirligigs (1939) 18: Merriam gave Hedges and then Quinby an ice-cold hand. ‘Br-r-r-r!’ said Hedges. ‘But you’ve got a frappéd flipper!’.at flipper, n.1
‘O. Henry’ ‘The World and the Door’ in Whirligigs (1939) 11: Merriam sat in a corner [...] and smoked and drank Scotch ‘smoke’.at smoke, n.
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