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[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 47: We were all up against the dope, and it was a great crowd that smoked [...] in those days. [...] Actors and actresses came down to Mott Street then to go against the hop.
at against, prep.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 7: He’s gone crazy, sure as you live.
at sure as you’re a foot high under sure as..., phr.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 51: The fellow who had his nut opened swore positively I was the man [...] who had hit him with a billy.
at billy, n.4
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 31: What in Pell street parlance is termed a ‘brannigan,’ a condition produced by two gallons of mixed ale to one quart of whiskey.
at brannigan, n.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 39: We got pretty well strapped in ’Frisco, down to a couple of hundred.
at strapped (for cash), adj.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 29: Why, you can’t walk a step without brushing up against some ‘chips’.
at chip, n.3
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 50: I went to the damper to see if she had taken the roll, but there wasn’t a cent gone.
at damper, n.2
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 21: I’d like ter punch the monkey face off’m.
at monkey-face, n.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 6: I got stuck on her for fair.
at for fair, adv.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 40: That sucker had actually followed us [...] with the flatty and nailed Fritz. [Ibid.] 50: The flatties closed in on me to put on the nippers.
at flattie, n.3
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 43: The girl [...] had given so many good people the ‘frost’, becoming the property of a Chinaman.
at frost, n.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 51: I was just getting into the hearse after being sentenced when Ida ran up.
at hearse, n.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 70: This is your last night down here, and you might as well have a little jol.
at jolly, n.1
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 8: They’re feeling pretty jol in there.
at jolly, adj.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 37: He had had a number of invitations to smoke at various layouts.
at layout, n.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 50: Pete Reagan and Kid Carroll had turned off some big nabob, and getting leary, had given me the stuff to keep until the thing blew over.
at leery, adj.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 63: Strike me blind, but it’s a five-spot.
at strike me blind! (excl.) under strike me...!, excl.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 50: Pete Reagan and Kid Carroll had turned off some big nabob.
at nabob, n.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 40: That sucker had actually followed us [...] with the flatty and nailed Fritz, who worked the thing.
at nail, v.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 50: The flatties closed in on me to put on the nippers.
at nipper, n.2
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 75: A ‘hop-toy’ of Lee How’s No. 1 opium.
at number one, adj.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 7: The boys guyed him [...] and volunteered the information that he was either ‘nutty’ or ‘off his feed’.
at nutty, adj.2
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 50: Pete Reagan and Kid Carroll had turned off some big nabob, and getting leary, had given me the stuff to keep until the thing blew over.
at turn off, v.1
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 63: Yer beefstew’s a little on the toughology.
at -ology, n.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 38: A little dark-haired peach.
at peach, n.1
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 52: The boys were constantly making play for her.
at make a play for (v.) under play, n.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 41: They would have hung him or sent him up for life.
at send up (v.) under send, v.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 36: Bring a shell of dope, will you?
at shell, n.
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 51: It was a clear case against me, and I got soaked for fourteen years and two months.
at soak, v.2
[US] W. Norr Stories of Chinatown 37: He told me you and he had split. What was the trouble?
at split, v.
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