1908 Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 70: Ye can’t help me [...] nobody can’t. I’m up against the push.at up against the wall under up against, phr.
1908 Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 4: You’ll wish they’d handed you the book and you’d been hung.at book, n.
1908 Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 7: ‘Hang on to your copper,’ he murmured. [Ibid.] 38: He would have remaining to serve only 1760 days. 1760 – if he held his copper. He had held it [...] These calculations had become a mania with him. He would reduce to days his original sentence, then to days his copper, then his original sentence minus his copper, then his original sentence minus his copper minus the days served.at copper, n.
1908 Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 38: He would have remaining to serve only 1760 days. 1760 – if he held his copper. He had held it.at blow one’s copper (v.) under copper, n.
1908 Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 129: He came upon a policeman. The man, a big, burly hulk, was walking slowly, twirling his stick.at hulk, n.
1908 Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 4: You’ll wish that more’n once before ye’ve croaked in this mill!at mill, n.1
1908 Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 65: ‘What’s got into me?’ whispered 9009; ‘am I going nuts?’.at go nuts (v.) under nuts, adj.
1908 Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 70: Ye can’t help me [...] nobody can’t. I’m up against the push.at push, n.
1908 Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 55: A shock-headed, square-bodied little safe-cracker, called ‘Shorty’.at shorty, n.
1908 Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 23: No more of this [...] I’ll turn square.at turn square (v.) under square, adj.
1908 Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 126: ‘An’ don’t squeak,’ he went on; ‘if ye do, I’ll cut your head off.’.at squeak, v.