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Living Rough 33: The way you swum from that beach you’d have made Johnny Weismuller look like some pork-and-bean amateur.at pork-and-beans, adj.
Living Rough 33: The way you swum from that beach you’d have made Johnny Weismuller look like some pork-and-bean amateur. Living Rough 80: A swelled-dressed gent ankled in.at ankle, v.
Living Rough 121: That’s Baby-face Winters, a great little stem artist.at -artist, sfx
Living Rough 163: Every sentence was well sprinkled with F. C. and B.at b, n.1
Living Rough 164: ‘Go’n, ye dirty auld bag,’ they jeered at her.at bag, n.1
Living Rough 130: On the line Sister Ruth was called Battleship Ruth by the boys.at battleship, n.
Living Rough 139: Sometimes we’d plant a pineapple to throw a scare into some storekeeper. And sometimes we had to let off a ‘big cough’ and wreck his joint.at big cough (n.) under big, adj.
Living Rough 242: Why, hello, Pete, you lousy blanket stiff.at blanket stiff (n.) under blanket, n.
Living Rough 27: If it’s booze you are after I guess we can take you into some blind pig where you can get a drink.at blind pig, n.
Living Rough 264: Six of us staggered into a bohunk section gang’s camp.at bohunk, adj.
Living Rough 117: His songs are sung in every language, in Bohunk, in Wop, in Chink, in Spick.at bohunk, n.
Living Rough 128: He [...] started hitting the booze and playing around with the white dames.at hit the booze (v.) under booze, n.
Living Rough 154: I remembered the people upstairs had five bread-snappers.at breadsnapper (n.) under bread, n.1
Living Rough 45: Did you ever get buck fever when you saw that bear coming your way?at buck fever (n.) under buck, n.1
Living Rough 97: A seedy-looking guy puts the bum on him.at put the bum on (v.) under bum, n.3
Living Rough 169: She looked like some bun he had clicked on Hope Street.at bun, n.1
Living Rough 219: What a sucker I was [...] leaving Scotland and bumming around Canada! I’d have been better off, a buroo or parish stiff, than this.at buroo, n.
Living Rough 163: Every sentence was well sprinkled with F. C. and B.at C, n.1
Living Rough 254: You’d better cut it out before it really gets you or you’ll wind up like most of them, a mission or a canned-heat stiff.at canned heat, n.
Living Rough 117: His songs are sung in every language in Bohunk, in Wop, in Chink, in Spick [etc.].at Chink, n.
Living Rough 186: Many dancers who have reached national celebrity have got their first start at the clabber jigging and slum dance halls.at clabber jigging, n.
Living Rough 170: She talked more about clicks, jigging, and pictures.at click, n.4
Living Rough 274: Boy, we sure got cock-eyed that night.at cock-eyed, adj.2
Living Rough 170: I gave him a sherricking in front of all the corner chaps.at corner boy (n.) under corner, n.2
Living Rough 256: Some of them are always cribbing.at crib, v.5
Living Rough 283: A trimmer and a fireman had taken bad, that meant doing deuces. That is, doing double watches.at deuce, n.1
Living Rough 253: When you put the ding on a guy on the street he asks you why you don’t go to work.at ding, v.3
Living Rough 183: I’ve seen the dock rats in West Street, New York, in the Embarcadero of ’Frisco [...] but I don’t think I’ve ever seen any worse than the Glasgow gangster.at dock rat (n.) under dock, n.2
Living Rough 188: A rammy at a dance starts generally with some gang swaggering in armed with bottles and usually half-doped with red biddy.at doped, adj.
Living Rough 128: They say he got dosed up, too.at dosed (up), adj.
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