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The Old Bunch choose

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[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 102: Here is one of your own Abies for your stable.
at Abie, n.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 184: All the landlords they had ever had, the allrightniks to whom rent had to be paid.
at allrightnik, n.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 517: He’d be disbarred before he’d kiss-ass to that two-faced mutt.
at kiss ass, v.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 579: She hauls something out of her buzzoom.
at bazoom, n.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 3: [ch. title] Flappers and Jellybeans .
at jelly bean, n.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 49: Why waste himself on a dumbbell crowd like this?
at dumb-bell, adj.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 129: Oh, don’t be a blimp. Why, Rose, you can talk better than any of us.
at blimp, n.1
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 169: He might have known that brass button would have no sense of humor.
at brass buttons (n.) under brass, adj.1
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 189: He forgot his hat! That’s the cat’s nuts!
at cat’s nuts (n.) under cat, n.1
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 123: Is she the cat’s nuts! Boy, I could go fur her!
at cat’s nuts (n.) under cat, n.1
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 31: Is he the cat’s pajamas!
at cat’s pyjamas, n.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 566: Why don’t you trade in that cheesebox. I trade in my chevvy every year.
at cheesebox (n.) under cheese, n.1
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 557: Me, maybe, you can chew down, you old ganef.
at chew down (v.) under chew, v.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 57: Maybe dark meat tonight. They were supposed to be swell.
at dark meat, n.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 161: Have those dekes got any option on all the hot stuff?
at deke, n.1
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 68: The old man was a dreck.
at dreck, n.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 48: Foxey was all duked up wearing white duck pants and a silk shirt.
at duked out, adj.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 180: She [...] gave him a long French kiss.
at French kiss, n.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 12: Oh, don’t be a gump.
at gump, n.1
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 76: Hot mama! That broad in the red suit is pretty zaftig.
at hot mama, n.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 68: He was trying to jack up the old man’s nerve.
at jack up, v.3
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 20: ‘Eight o’clock.’ ‘Yah, Jewish time,’ snapped the Sharpshooter.
at Jewish (standard) time (n.) under Jewish, adj.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 88: He’d been jugged in eighteen states.
at jugged, adj.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 29: Old kakers like me have to crawl around and give pills to diabetics.
at kaker, n.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 165: Sam heard a terrific honk...and barely jumped aside in time to escape a Leaping Lena.
at leaping lena (n.) under leap, v.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 122: You mother-f– little runt.
at motherfucking, adj.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 17: In flats all over the neighborhood! White slaves, nafkehs.
at nafka, n.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 103: The last night the fuckn preems are a hunerd, two three hunerd bucks.
at preem, n.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 51: ‘Let’s make him take us both,’ Aline said with sudden pep. ‘Oh, I’m not going to be a shlepalong,’ Rose cried. ‘I’ll die if I have to listen to that simp all night!’.
at schlepalong (n.) under schlep, v.
[US] M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 76: Hot mama! That broad in the red suit is pretty zaftig.
at zaftig, adj.
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