1956 E. Hunter Second Ending 302: You will slowly and surely and without doubt sink into the gutter with your gorilla on your back.at monkey on one’s back, n.
1956 E. Hunter Second Ending 302: When you’re hooked, you’re dead. It takes a lot of guts [...] more guts than you were thinking of when you grabbed that cute little bammie. When you are dead, there is nothing but heroin.at bammy, n.
1956 E. Hunter Second Ending 267: ‘Oh, come on, man, you’re dusting me.’ ‘I kid you not.’.at dust, v.3
1956 E. Hunter Second Ending 300: How clever, how George, these hopheads sure know how to put things, hey!at George, adj.
1956 E. Hunter Second Ending 301: If you have a gorilla, I can guarantee that you will steal [...] you will do anything to feed that gorilla because he is the boss and not you.at gorilla, n.2
1956 E. Hunter Second Ending 303: The loot you dug up to feed your gorilla.at feed one’s habit (n.) under habit, n.
1956 E. Hunter Second Ending 239: You don’t need a syringe, Bud. Where there’s a will there’s a way—and there’s always a will when you’re a horsehead.at horse-head (n.) under horse, n.
1956 E. Hunter Second Ending 329: A guy named Dizzy Gillespie [...] wears a little beard right here under his lip, a sort of goatee, a little triangular thing. We call it a ‘Dizzy kick’ in the trade.at kick, n.7
1956 E. Hunter Second Ending 267: ‘Oh, come on, man, you’re dusting me’ ‘I kid you not.’.at I kid you not under kid, v.
1956 E. Hunter Second Ending 236: ‘Where’s the spike?’ He took the syringe from the jacket pocket.at spike, n.1
1974 H. Wolitzer Ending 88: ‘Tough break.’ I placed a basket of candy at every place setting [...] ‘Tough break,’ he said again.at tough break (n.) under tough, adj.