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[US] Committee of 15 Report in Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone (1958) 184: The infamy of the private house with all the horrors arising from the cadet system did not satisfy official greed.
at cadet, n.
[US] C. Himes Cast the First Stone 275: Goddamn, that looks like the Big Parade.
at big parade (n.) under big, adj.
[US] C. Himes Cast the First Stone 32: The snow had softened and was slushy and the wheelbarrows churned it into heavy muck. Rolling those ‘Georgia buggies’ was a killing job.
at Georgia buggy (n.) under Georgia, adj.
[US] C. Himes Cast the First Stone 112: The toughies who had nothing but their outside reps got their throats cut by hicksville punks who had never heard of them.
at Hicksville, adj.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 137: Three bathrooms to be kept [...] ‘spanking clean’ and ‘in apple-pie order.’.
at apple-pie order, n.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 150: How do you like that pot of apples?
at how do you like them apples?, phr.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 13: They [i.e. prostitutes] hang around the one-arm joints where people eat standing up.
at one-arm (joint), n.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 39: She had a small minute of indecision when he brought the first hundred-dollar baby to [...] meet her.
at baby, n.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 163: She does her job, which is to keep our home running smoothly, and I do mine of bringing home the bacon.
at bring home the bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 19: They are glad, too, if the ones who are picked up happen to be important to their sweet men, if they are their ‘head chicks’ instead of just one or another of their ‘barnyard hens.’.
at barnyard hen (n.) under barnyard, adj.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 17: Them beat-up old hags we got around.
at beat-up, adj.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 108: You’re not just beating your lip [...] Doggone right.
at beat one’s gums, v.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 156: I preferred smaller girls [...] and all my madams used to keep several little beauts around for me to pick from.
at beaut, n.1
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 25: The girls didn’t know which one he regarded as his main chick.
at main bitch, n.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 50: She’d give up wearing them [i.e. rings] after she and dad had their last blow-up.
at blow-up, n.1
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 12: There are other clubs that are as elegant and expensive, only not so blue-nosed.
at blue-nosed, adj.
[US] (con. 1930s) Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 198: New entrepreneurs, calling themslves bookers, grew out of the vaudeville-circuit pattern. In addition to running a call service for madams, they organized a protection racket that was tied in with the bail bond business.
at booker, n.1
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 12: Chances are, if a call-girl is easy to meet she is not, as her boosters boast, ‘top-drawer stuff.’.
at boost, v.1
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 165: It burns them up not to be lords and masters in their own beds.
at burn up, v.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 159: I was standing in this Tornado Bar [...] when she whisked in and started giving me the business.
at give someone the business (v.) under business, n.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 91: Ma said, ‘[...] bring him to th’ Harlem Hospital.’ I said, ‘Ma, I cain’t do it. I cain’t take him there. It’s a butcher shop.’.
at butcher shop (n.) under butcher, n.1
[US] (con. 1890s) Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 183: They hired handsome young men, known as cadets in the business, who applied all their energies to seducing suitable girls.
at cadet, n.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 146: I’ve left my home and gone hunting for a young chippy.
at chippie, n.1
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 252: circus An exhibition of sexual, orgiastic acts, orginally performed for customers of a whorehouse; now any such exhibition.
at circus, n.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 23: A lush, ripe sixteen with a figure that the colts at Monkey’s called a ‘coke frame – streamlined like a Coca-Cola bottle.’.
at coke frame, n.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 14: The girls never bother the alkies and cokies of the street.
at cokie, n.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 23: A lush, ripe sixteen with a figure that the colts at Monkey’s called a ‘coke frame – streamlined like a Coca-Cola bottle.’.
at colt, n.1
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 25: Sally must have felt [...] that it was a come-down for a white girl to live with a black man.
at come-down, n.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 54: I made some connections [...] and did a little peddling.
at connection, n.
[US] Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 252: cow A prostitute; one of a group of girls in a pimp’s stable.
at cow, n.1
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