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(con. 1930s) Dublin Street Life and Lore 206: My father used to play what they called the ‘box’, the accordion.at box, n.1
(con. 1930s) Dublin Street Life and Lore 206: My father used to play what they called the ‘box’, the accordion. Dublin Street Life and Lore 213: He is one of the most gifted ‘chalkies’ on Dublin’s streets.at chalky, n.
Dublin Street Life and Lore 212: I learn a lot about human nature on the streets. You see all the lunacies and down-and-outs and dingbats.at dingbat, n.7
(con. 1930s) Dublin Street Life and Lore 183: If he was a hardjaw we’d get back at him.at hard chaw (n.) under hard, adj.
Dublin Street Life and Lore 179: What he most feared were the ‘wild’ cattle that would tear ‘hammers out of hell’ down the street leaving death and destruction in their wake.at go like the hammers of hell (v.) under hell, n.
(con. 1930s) Dublin Street Life and Lore 85: Hoggers was men looking for a free drink [...] They were knockabouts.at hogger, n.1
(con. 1930s) Dublin Street Life and Lore 85: Hoggers was men looking for a free drink [...] They were knockabouts.at knockabout, n.
(con. 1930s) Dublin Street Life and Lore 80: Your drink could be bought on credit – put it on the ‘tick’ or the ‘slate’.at on one’s/the slate under slate, n.1
(con. 1930s) Dublin Street Life and Lore 84: That was some job!at some, adj.
Dublin Street Life and Lore 131: I’m a spieler. We ‘spiel’ them. Spieling means to get out and actually do it differently than just standing there selling,... to give a speech, a good line of speech.at spiel, v.1
Dublin Street Life and Lore 131: I’m a spieler. We ‘spiel’ them. Spieling means to get out and actually do it differently than just standing there selling,... to give a speech, a good line of speech.at spieler, n.
Dublin Street Life and Lore 131: Then I decided to go into jewelry like Bimbo (another spieler).at spieler, n.
(con. 1930s–40s) Dublin Street Life and Lore 49: In the war years I seen maybe seventy yokes on the hazard.at yoke, n.1
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