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Prison Days and Nights 23: You [...] have to take one of them cop-a-plea lawyers the court hands you.at cop a plea, adj.
Prison Days and Nights 23: You [...] have to take one of them cop-a-plea lawyers the court hands you. Prison Days and Nights 29: Does that make him the kind of man who should have all that power? In a pig’s neck!at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
Prison Days and Nights 25: They [...] let us have three half-arse meals a day and a cell to sleep in at night.at half-assed, adj.
Prison Days and Nights 26: There’s nobody that can holler as loud as a thief that’s been beat for something.at beat (someone) for (v.) under beat, v.
Prison Days and Nights 211: Take the chaplain [...] what does he know? Only what them goddam bibleback cons tell him.at bibleback, n.
Prison Days and Nights 81: Elsmore became afflicted with a very pronounced ‘big shot’ complex.at big shot, n.
Prison Days and Nights 13: Paddy is powerless to punish me [...] he cannot send me to the ‘block’.at block, n.4
Prison Days and Nights 58: He was known variously as ‘The Rapey’ or ‘Old Blubberhead’ by the inmates.at blubber-head (n.) under blubber, n.2
Prison Days and Nights 206: Always got at least two or three grand for my end of the boodle.at boodle, n.1
Prison Days and Nights 261: If he’s an ex-con they’ll throw the whole book at him and bury him for life.at throw the book at (v.) under book, n.
Prison Days and Nights 23: These guys don’t talk any numbers that I can get my dukes on; all they talk is box-car numbers.at boxcar number, n.
Prison Days and Nights 36: That’s about all anybody can do for a guy when he’s in the can, anyhow, when you come right down to brass tacks.at get down to brass tacks (v.) under brass tacks, n.
Prison Days and Nights 35: These visits, especially from the broadies, are a pain in the whatsis.at broadie, n.
Prison Days and Nights 183: It may be very bromidically said that the criminal is, after all, a human being.at bromide, n.
Prison Days and Nights 95: He gradually developed into a big-time bucket-shop man.at bucket shop, n.
Prison Days and Nights 211: These psy-psych- bug doctors [...] come over here and give us the bug tests.at bug doctor (n.) under bug, n.4
Prison Days and Nights 211: These psy-psych- bug doctors [...] come over here and give us the bug tests. [Ibid.] 271: Bug tests are strictly the bunk!at bug test (n.) under bug, n.4
Prison Days and Nights 27: Those guys [i.e. lawyers] do some real harm. They put banks and whole communities on the bum.at put (someone/something) on the bum (v.) under bum, adj.
Prison Days and Nights 37: Those stew bums and working stiffs, what the hell good are they?at stew bum, n.
Prison Days and Nights 38: Naturally a guy has got to get off the button now and then. But when I get that way, I’m going out and dig me up a broad for the night.at get off the button (v.) under button, n.1
Prison Days and Nights 254: It’ll be a night with a jimmy and a can-opener.at can opener, n.
Prison Days and Nights 93: [He] was known among the recipients generally as ‘an 18-karat sucker’.at eighteen-carat, adj.
Prison Days and Nights 27: Any broad that gets caught, all she has to do to save her face is holler rape.at caught (out), adj.
Prison Days and Nights 206: I suppose Estelle will stick. She better [...] after all the cocoanuts I threw away on her.at coconut, n.1
Prison Days and Nights 27: The four coons wind up getting [...] twenty-five years. Ain’t that a swell come-off?at come-off, n.
Prison Days and Nights 261: If he’s an ex-con they’ll throw the whole book at him.at ex-con, n.
Prison Days and Nights 178: There are usually only two or three ‘connections’ (or sources of supply).at connection, n.
Prison Days and Nights 125: He comes out after several days of bread and water in the ‘cooler’.at cooler, n.
Prison Days and Nights 25: The line of crap they hand out to the papers and the women’s clubs.at line of crap (n.) under crap, n.1
Prison Days and Nights 37: They all take the oath, and are ready to shoot you or me if they see us trying to crash the wall.at crash, v.
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