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S.A. Mackeever, Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 29/2: [as 1879].at slap-bang(-shop), n.
S.A. Mackeever, Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 29/2: [as 1879]. S.A. Mackeever, Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 50/1: Most cities have only one coroner, and there’s where New York has got the ‘bulge’ on them.at have the bulge on (v.) under bulge, n.
Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 15/2: Some [theater-goers] pay, but others are on the regular list as dead-heads, and [...] the idea of ‘giving up’ for an ordinary night strikes them with a cold horror.at deadhead, n.
Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 67/1: I’m to have the [burglar’s tools] and the plan of that house in 110 th street. If I do the thing, you’re to divvy.at divvy, v.
Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 51/1: The lunch fiend [i.e. a frequenter of free lunch counters] is always a man who has seen better days.at fiend, n.
Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 15/2: Some [theater-goers] pay, but others are on the regular list as dead-heads, and [...] the idea of ‘giving up’ for an ordinary night strikes them with a cold horror.at give up, v.
Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 35/1: I am sure that if I didn’t like the first twenty-five cent fortune told me I would go again and to another shop. By perseverance and a liberal outlay of quarters it is possible to strike a ‘hummer’.at hummer, n.1
Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 55/1: I would be a despicable wretch indeed to repay the courtesy which made the experience possible by ‘squealing’ on those I met. I believe they call it ‘squealing’.at squeal (on), v.
Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 14/1: We find a few ladies and gentlemen, some of whom have been singing ‘Pinafore’ at a ‘shneid’ theatre on the Saturday night, furnishing a variety of fancy music.at snide, adj.
Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 38/2: Sometimes [New York costumers] fit out ‘snap’ theatrical organizations, but it is an awful risk. Many a Claude Melnotte or a Romeo has been forced to spout his dress in order to get home, and [...] the costumer is sore to bid farewell to [the] suit.at spout, v.2
Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 20/1: It was a fine dinner, with at least two quarts of the ‘widow’ to each man.at Widow, the, n.
Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters 13/1: There isn’t a man in the country — and I’ll put up $500 at the Clipper office — which I believe is the usual ‘toot’ when you bet — to back it, who has a greater reverence for the genuine article of Religion that I have.at toot, n.2
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