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[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 92: Does he give a damn if I am the only one who can operate the radio.
at give a damn, v.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 6: That personality boy at a downtown hotel has aired the femme that got him the job.
at air, v.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 29: She went with me to this one-arm where I eat.
at one-arm (joint), n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 107: Some high paid bageroo.
at bageroo (n.) under bag, n.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 41: You are banging them right over every where you go.
at bang, v.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 109: Carl Kress and Manny Klein go right thru town and never give me a bell.
at give someone a bell (v.) under bell, n.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 99: Her hair is crew cut like the college blood.
at blood, n.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 112: I could hang a blooper on it [i.e. one’s face].
at blooper, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 23: Just think a year ago you were the one crying the blues.
at cry the blues (v.) under blues, n.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 37: I would give the boot to that rumpot you have now.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 85: The next wk. I got the bounceroo from the joint.
at bounceroo, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 66: This pan handler came up to me and braced me.
at brace, v.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 30: Betty said her bro.-in-law never went to night clubs.
at bro, n.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 22: He came over and introduced her to me and she gave me a slight brush. [Ibid.] 86: She [...] was glad to see me instead of giving me the brush.
at give someone the brush(-off) (v.) under brush-off, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 20: He would think twice about bucking this mouse’s old man.
at buck, v.2
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 91: Over there was a bump man I used to see out at the track.
at bump man (n.) under bump, v.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 2: I burned but went on singing and playing.
at burn, v.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 39: Time is getting short Charley says before the hay-burners stop running at Hialeah.
at hay burner, n.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 2: He [...] began making cracks but loud.
at but, adv.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 21: I lit a butt and smoked it calmly.
at butt, n.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 60: The mouse with me is strictly no cigar and the daughter of a small town banker.
at cigar, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 31: I hit a crap game for about eighty clams.
at clam, n.2
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 22: I am singing for coffee and cakes at a crib on Cottage Grove Ave.
at coffee and cakes (n.) under coffee, n.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 42: I got creamed out of the hotel spot in Ohio.
at get creamed (v.) under cream, v.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 22: I am singing for coffee and cakes at a crib on Cottage Grove Ave.
at crib, n.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 72: It was not a spending party, strictly cufferoo.
at cufferoo (adj.) under cuff, n.2
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 83: She tho’t perhaps I was waiting for a date.
at date, n.1
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 3: I was sorry if it embarrassed her me calling attention to her dope boyfriend.
at dope, adj.2
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 100: Duillo is not double gaited as far as I know.
at double-gaited (adj.) under double, adj.
[US] J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 39: Think of the flash, as they used to say in vaudeville.
at flash, n.1
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