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[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 167: How did that bunch of gills ever get to be the big spuds in the business world.
at big potato, n.1
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 165: Couple-a-easy-looking biscuit shooters over there.
at biscuit shooter (n.) under biscuit, n.1
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 173: Listen, burly, what’s the big idea?
at burly, n.1
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 166: What’ll it be: grunt and a couple of cacklers?
at cackler, n.2
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 146: Oh, the Carny’ll make out.
at carney, n.2
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 68: It’s only natural for Sam to go into a clinch [...] it is rather thrilling to be enclosed in the embrace of a Greek god.
at clinch, n.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 167: Any guy with two eyes and a ripe coco can protect himself.
at coco, n.1
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 70: Oh, I didn’t mean you, cowface.
at cowface (n.) under cow, n.1
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 68: I thought he was a terrible cramp on account of him being so dumb.
at cramp, n.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 143: There’s a pretty cute little curve.
at curve, n.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 145: Plenty of scratch [...] You know, dirt.
at dirt, n.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 59: I don’t want mustard [...] just the dog.
at dog, n.2
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 142: Makes all the other ideas I ever had sound like drip.
at drip, n.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 136: Pull in your ears, mutt.
at pull in one’s ears (v.) under ear, n.1
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 171: I’d feel like a flit [...] browsing around the Kiddies’ Korner.
at flit, n.2
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 161: I hadda loan Mosey my roll to flash on the gills at the Carny.
at gill, n.1
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 164: We don’t want any googs handed out around here.
at goog, n.2
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 171: Great balls of fire! Holy Joe, this is horrible, Maudie!
at great balls of fire! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 166: What’ll it be: grunt and a couple of cacklers?
at grunt, n.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 171: Great balls of fire! Holy Joe, this is horrible, Maudie!
at holy Joe!, excl.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 168: Jamoke hits the spot, hey?
at jamoke, n.1
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 71: ‘Jeepers Peltz!’ I marvelled.
at jeepers!, excl.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 164: These wallies are all rubber socks with the wife around. A couple-a-mean looks like that one and it jims the best game going.
at jim (up), v.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 142: Look at all the jingle passing over the table.
at jingle, n.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 168: All morals and no horse sense. You take a young flash like this here Davy and drop him into anything maybe a little bit kinky, and he’s just fifty cards in the deck.
at kinky, adj.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 145: I’m not talking about these mush workers that tell you some sob story.
at mush-worker (n.) under mush, n.1
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 136: Some poop-out of a system, that it.
at poop-out, n.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 161: You gotta have a pile of pitch for the come-on, see?
at pitch, n.1
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 81: ‘Knock that smile offa him, Bat!’ ‘Smiling Sam, yah, round-heel!’ ‘What’s a round-heel?’ I asked Davy. ‘Round-heel’s a pushover.’.
at roundheels, n.
[US] G. & S. Lorimer Stag Line 164: These wallies are all rubber socks with the wife around.
at rubber sock (n.) under rubber, adj.
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