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Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary choose

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[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 136: The British got around President Harrison and bamboozled him.
at bamboozle, v.
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 84: He was giving his companion a gam, and trying to learn if there was going to be a break.
at break, n.2
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 12: The ‘bull ring’ is the back yard, where convicts take exercise.
at bull-ring, n.1
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 56: The people who make the most talk about an ‘ex.’ nine times out of ten if they had what was coming to them they would be behind bars.
at ex, n.1
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 66: The ‘head snitch’ is sometimes called the head flunkey.
at flunky, n.2
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 35: The next boy to be flogged was a ‘fresh fish’ from Portland.
at fresh fish (n.) under fresh, adj.2
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 84: He was giving his companion a gam, and trying to learn if there was going to be a break.
at gam, v.1
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 81: Stealing cologne bottles and razors shows that you are a no-good stiff.
at no-good, adj.
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 12: Then hell commenced to pop.
at hell’s a popping under hell, n.
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 14: He had the jams. His eyes were bloodshot from booze.
at jams, n.
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 79: Go and tell him that Sulllivan jobbed me with the canary bird and that will make them think I was jobbed on my kidnapping charge.
at job, v.4
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 53: The latter believe all ministers are Johnny-come-lately.
at johnny-come-lately (n.) under johnny, n.1
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 15: I saw the big lumixer.
at lummocks, n.
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 35: The ‘head snitch’ (convict flunky) said the bot would not work.
at snitch, n.1
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 66: There are [...] the ‘head snitch,’ the ‘stools’.
at stool, n.
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 71: The guard told the stool [...] if at any time he saw the super coming to give the screw the ‘office’.
at super, n.1
[US] J. Kelley Thirteen Years in Oregon Penitentiary 81: Pat came back again; he was a three-time loser.
at three-time loser (n.) under three, adj.
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