1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 28: I run myself bare-assed keeping those hounds in trim.at bare-ass, adj.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 72: She had [...] become a complete mother. A mother from ’way back.at way back, phr.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 26: On my left, there lived an altogether ball-less wonder [...] He was pop-eyed and froggy-faced.at ball-less (adj.) under balls, n.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 80: I suppose Irving had blabbed to them about my job.at blab, v.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 71: A smiling nurse, who had probably seen innumerable movies of such buckeye situations, held up a small bundle for my inspection.at buckeye, adj.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 57: We decided to try our luck in the nearby metropolis of Syracuse [...] Julian and I were going alone, at first, to case the joint.at case the joint (v.) under case, v.1
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 21: I had run myself sick and breathless trying to chisel the thirty dollars that I needed for his fee.at chisel, v.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 141: A friend of mine told me about the Moreno Clinic. [...] This place wasn’t a drug-cleaning joint at all. It handled only genuine cuckoos.at clean up, v.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 14: It comes to lisping Southern fairies who act like probationers from a booby hatch.at fairy, n.1
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 88: Manny, down at the narcotics farm, would be enmeshed in his own private nightmares.at farm, n.1
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 25: One flea bag in the West Forties, the Hotel Minnetonka, left a particularly lurid shadow in my memory.at fleabag, n.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 20: He not only had one [a heart], but it was on the fritz.at on the fritz (adj.) under fritz, n.2
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 37: He turned out to be a Negro pansy [...] and his name was Gertrude.at Gertie, n.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 75: He [...] shoved an eight-inch heater into his mouth.at heater, n.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 98: Donald felt the evening was turning out a howling success.at howling, adj.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 44: There’s no such thing as just joy-popping.at joy-popping, n.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 47: I am instinctively leery of joining anything.at leery, adj.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 99: Most of them were professional booze lice who crawled from one vernissage to the other.at -louse, sfx
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 200: But Mirko didn’t seem to care too much for the ‘nutcrackers’ around the place.at nutcracker, n.2
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 45: He’s an old hophead [...] He used to hit the pipe.at hit the pipe (v.) under pipe, n.1
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 44: We used to mix schmeck for Mike Malasino.at schmeck, n.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 77: What do you mean Jews? [...] Am I going to put big schnozzles on them and earlocks, or what?at schnozzle, n.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 22: My new-found friend knew another croaker who wrote scrip for junkies.at scrip, n.2
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 74: I thought I had better douse this stink bomb before he loused up my act.at stink bomb (n.) under stink, n.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 142: He was a cool stud and really had something on the ball.at stud, n.
1958 A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 26: On my left, there lived an altogether ball-less wonder [...] He was called Wimpy.at wimpy, adj.