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Dly News (NY) 21 Nov. 78/1: The ‘solid ivory’ lad is a youthful bonehead.at solid ivory (adj.) under solid, adj.
Dly News (NY) 21 Nov. 78/1: The ‘solid ivory’ lad is a youthful bonehead. Dly News (NY) 8 Oct. 39/1: A gay little piece of theatre flimflammery.at flimflammery (n.) under flim-flam, n.
Dly News (NY) 8 Feb. 80/2: The snooper [...] scuttled up and down the aisle, sniffing the aroma of tobacco and watching for the telltale flares that signified that someone was igniting a pill.at snooper, n.
Dly News (NY) 3 May 50/1: He had been stewed to the eyeballs.at stewed to the gills (adj.) under stewed, adj.1
Dly News (NY) 20 Oct. 4/2: Kelly agreed to restore the [...] property, and all was jerry.at jerry, adj.2
Dly News (NY) 26 Aug. 17/3: New York girls are slick ducks. They are taking away the easy jobs from the men.at slick duck (n.) under slick, adj.
Dly News (NY) 20 Oct. 4/5: A veteran Bowery bum well known in smoke joints on misery row [...] was found dead from alcoholism.at smoke joint (n.) under smoke, n.
Dly News (NY) 7 Mar. 69/2: He’s smart, that Johnson. A stand up straight guy.at stand-up, adj.
Dly News (NY) 20 Oct. 4/4: The police [hope] that they might convict the trigger-men who fired four bullets into the gangster.at trigger, n.1
Dly News (NY) 3 Mar. 6/2: Gang Slang. These ‘Circus’ guys [...] weren’t looking for trouble. They ddn’t want to get a bang’.at bang, n.1
Dly News (NY) 9 Feb. 3/3: The gun gangs lived like princes, died like rats and were buried like kings. It was nothing to see a ton of [...] flowers withering on some booze bug’s grave.at booze bug (n.) under booze, n.
Dly News (NY) 14 Jan. 42/5: Our Guide says Fletch is a shoe-in to dump Norval.at shoe-in, n.
Dly News (NY) 22 June 6: [headline] [Of ‘love cult’ mansion] Rival 2-Million Love Shack Faces Oom. / The current depression has not yet affected the love cult business [etc].at love shack (n.) under love, n.
Dly News (NY) 3 Mar. 6/2: Gang Slang. It looked like a pinch and the passing out of a buck or two; a pinch and a shake.at pinch, n.
Dly News (NY) 3 Mar. 6/2: Gang Slang. Sneeze: to kidnap; to abduct. ‘Put the sneeze to the big boy and give the works to his broad’.at sneeze, v.2
Dly News (NY) 3 Mar. 6/2: Gang Slang. Squeeze: graft. ‘Squeeze the captain and you’re okay in the district’.at squeeze, v.
Dly News (NY) 6 May 52/1: Kilcullen was not the only New York entry to bite the dust.at bite the dust (v.) under dust, n.
Dly News (NY) 16 July 62/4: Collect that many half-baked horn tooters and catgut-scrapers and the finest leader [...] won’t be able to make it sound like anything but backfence warfare.at catgut-scraper (n.) under catgut, n.1
Dly News (NY) 17 June 76/2: Squabby Vines was not his usual cheerful self.at squabby (adj.) under squab, n.1
Dly News (NY) 16 Apr. 34: Stomach pump — Accordion.at stomach Steinway (n.) under stomach, n.
Dly News (NY) 3 Nov. 31C/1: Coffin — instrument case.at coffin, n.1
Dly News (NY) 3 Nov. 31C/1: Slush pump — trombone.at slush pump (n.) under slush, n.1
Dly News (NY) 5 Oct. 167/1: Then, where would he be? Working for old Sourpuss Crane.at sourpuss, n.
Dly News (NY) 3 Nov. 31C/1: Tinkle box — piano.at tinklebox (n.) under tinkle, n.
Dly News (NY) 20 Mar. 39/3: You’ve been smoking goof butts.at goof butt (n.) under goof, n.2
Dly News (NY) 21 Feb. 46/1: Mulah — Money.at moola, n.
Dly News (NY) 16 Aug. 4/3: Attorney V.J. Herwitz declared he had operated his office on a swindle sheet basis.at swindle sheet (n.) under swindle, n.
Dly News (NY) 30 May 10/3: In Australia [...] if a thing is a bonzer it’s tops.at bonzer, n.
Dly News (NY) 30 May 10/3: Where we say ‘Grin and bear it,’ the Australian says ‘Crack Hardy’.at crack hardy (v.) under crack, v.4
Dly News (NY) 30 May 10/3: If an Australian has a ‘derry’ on you, he does not like you.at have a derry on (v.) under derry, n.1
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