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[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 33: He copped a sneak one day.
at cop a sneak (v.) under cop a..., v.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 105: I never thought he’d go th’ Dutch route.
at take the Dutch route (v.) under Dutch act, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 95: I’ll put you both in the morgue as sure as I’m a foot high.
at sure as you’re a foot high under sure as..., phr.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 79: Guys what I never suspicioned o’ usin’ dope went around beggin’ friend f’r a ball.
at ball, n.1
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 282: There was a phony note in his bazoo that I couldn’t get away from.
at bazoo, n.1
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 216: When the commitments were sprung he belched everything he knew.
at belch, v.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 358: The boy seated himself on the ‘mourner’s bench’, and the Captain went into his office.
at mourner’s bench, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison in Hamilton Men of the Und. 246: I sat on the ‘mourner’s bench’ and he stood before me, instructing me as to the rules.
at mourner’s bench, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 282: I told him to go to blazes.
at go to blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 292: I have seen a mere boy [...] not only wearing an ‘Oregon boot,’ but shackled and handcuffed also.
at Oregon boot, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 141: Let’s see y’r breadhooks, kid.
at bread hooks (n.) under bread, n.1
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 147: The mess hall guards imagined that some kind of a riot or ‘break’ was in progress in the yard.
at break, n.2
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 26: I found it difficult to walk confidently in the brogans.
at brogan, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 56: He used t’ be th’ best confidence man in th’ business, but he’s got th’ religious bug now.
at bug, n.4
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 103: He’s gone bugs.
at go bugs (v.) under bugs, adj.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison in Hamilton Men of the Und. 248: Dat’s th’ night bull.
at bull, n.5
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 392: The cells are preferable to the ‘bull pen’ with its fetid miasma.
at bullpen, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 60: You haven’t got any bum fingers, or a broken arm [...] have y’r?
at bum, adj.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 134: The cornetist, who had been Charlie’s ‘bunky’.
at bunkie, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 56: He used t’ be th’ best confidence man in th’ business.
at business, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 153: We’re certainly th’ candy kids when it comes t’ that kind o’ work.
at candy, adj.3
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 57: All single cells. ‘Battleship Mag,’ ‘Clara Bell’ and all the notorious characters cell there.
at cell, v.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 280: A Deputy Sheriff came into the jail one day and got to chewing the rag with me.
at chew the rag, v.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 242: They just hang him from the neck down, and to get the right drop they have to know just how many feet and inches he is from his tootsie-wootsies to the place where the chicken got the axe.
at where the chicken got the axe under chicken, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 236: Chinese, Indians, negroes, cholos [...] have died in mid-air.
at cholo, n.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 143: He had been a prison officer nearly all his life, and was what is known as ‘con wise’.
at conwise (adj.) under con, n.1
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 94: Miller [...] had aroused the deadly enmity of the ‘con boss’ of his section.
at con boss (n.) under con, n.1
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 103: The guard stationed at the gate tried to stop him, as did his ‘con’ assistant. [Ibid.] 124: They couldn’t keep an ex-con in th’ hotel.
at con, n.1
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 383: The next time I go to town I’ll cook his goose.
at cook someone’s goose, v.
[US] D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 280: If I was you I’d cough up about kicking in the P.O.
at cough up, v.
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