1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 94: String along with him. Ask him to let you in on what other marvelous deeds he’s going to put across.at string (along) with (v.) under string (along), v.
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 26: You miss those penny-ante punks you thought were big shots in Chi.at penny ante, adj.
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 159: The boys had put away forever five of Tim’s River Rats.at put away, v.
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 124: There’s automatics an’ sub-machine-guns an’ them babes know how to handle ’em.at babe, n.
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 17: And the sap dames who get their hair phoneyed up pay the bad news.at bad news, n.
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 145: [It] houses more speakeasies, dope dens, toke joints, badger apartments.at badger, n.1
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 130: Some good-lookin’ chippy at you to get in wit’ you till you’re off your nut over her an’ trust her, an’—bam!at bam!, excl.
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 3: You came in here carryin’ the banner and singin’ the blues.at carry the banner (v.) under banner, n.
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 11: If a ‘rap’ threatened, and this was a Federal offense, hard to square or beat, the ‘monkeys’ would be jettisoned without hesitation.at beat, v.
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 2: You got no call for the big-time camps since the market went Democratic.at big-time, adj.
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 7: The Big Boy, as they called him (and it was abbreviated to B. B.) rarely came there.at big boy, n.
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 26: From tipsy teamsters to the top shots of Chicago’s underworld, they had given her the chase and the work.at big shot, n.
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 24: Downstairs is a dress joint—it’s run by a blister named Imogene.at blister, n.1
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 150: [He] nervously spun out the bottle of the blistering nepenthese of a hell that held no terror for Tim.at blistering, adj.
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 9: She didn’t tell him that it was she who had blown Goldie’s belly out with his own gilded gats.at blow out, v.1
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 3: You came in here carryin’ the banner and singin’ the blues.at sing the blues (v.) under blues, n.1
1930 J. Lait Gangster Girl 4: In Chicago the rackets were run by a bunch of boss hoodlums.at boss, adj.