1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 196: Soon his checks were piled ‘higher than a cat’s back’.at higher than a cat’s back, adj.
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 210: An ‘agent’ entered the car with an order to ‘bail up’.at bail up, v.
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 8: The gambler who was indicted for running a game of chance, and was triumphantly acquitted on his counsel’s plea that the players who bucked against his bank didn’t have any chance?at buck, v.2
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 52: Devill comes back and begins his monkey business again.at monkey business, n.
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 51: The officers at Natchez cleaned all the gamblers out.at clean out, v.
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 197: The latter naively suggested that it was time to ‘cut up the coin.’ ‘What do you mean?’ asked the official. ‘Why, I want my piece,’ was the reply.at cut, v.6
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 191: My first three cards were deuce, tray and four of hearts.at deuce, n.1
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 210: When he accidently dropped to the poker business he rose up and gave us an awful rubbing down.at rub down, v.
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 54: A sucker had no more chance against those fellows than a snow-ball has in a red-hot oven.at no more chance than a snowball in hell under hell, n.
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 54: When a fellow was roped into the game the gamblers [...] bought a deck for a dollar.at rope in, v.
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 59: Sometimes there’d be a kick and the captain would get hot.at kick, n.6
1896 J.F.B. Lillard Poker Stories 87: ‘But I held four aces—see?’ ‘Well, what of it? I’ve got a looloo.’ The stranger was dazed. ‘A looloo?’ he repeated. ‘What is a looloo, anyway?’ ‘Three clubs and two diamonds.’.at lulu, n.1
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 197: Do you suppose all those big ‘mitts’ dropped into you like angels from the skies?at mitt, n.
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 74: The son began to lay in ‘nigger luck’. He held surprising hands.at nigger luck (n.) under nigger, n.1
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 197: The latter naively sugested that it was time to ‘cut up the coin.’ ‘What do you mean?’ asked the offical. ‘Why, I want my piece,’ was the reply.at piece, n.
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 119: The blacklegs showed no mercy. They did not let him win even a few dollars to encourage him, but either booked the cards every trip, or else whipsawed him until he was forced to drop.at whip saw, v.
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 210: We chucked him two watches and $380 in cash quick’n scat.at scat, v.1
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 87: The game proceeded, but it was plainly evident that the unsophisticated young tiger hunter had something on his mind.at tiger-hunter (n.) under tiger, n.
1896 J.F. Lillard Poker Stories 56: He [...] got a lot of wildcat money, wrapped it around with a couple of twenties, and put some fives in the middle.at wildcat, adj.