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Haunch Paunch and Jowl 206: They’ll hire gunmen to fight their own gunmen. That’s the cheapest thing they got to sell, human abortions – what am I talking about? – monkey abortions.at abortion, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 206: They’ll hire gunmen to fight their own gunmen. That’s the cheapest thing they got to sell, human abortions – what am I talking about? – monkey abortions. Haunch Paunch and Jowl 283: So here we live in Allrightniks Row, Riverside Drive [...] The Ghetto called anyone who was well off – one who is all right in this world, that is, well fixed – an Allrightnik.at allrightnik, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 59: Sam [...] broke out, strongly, in a song, a highly smutty thing he picked up in a black-and-tan joint in Hell’s Kitchen.at black and tan club, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 67: After each rebuff I vow, ‘I’ll get you yet, French Baby Doll, you damned Teaser, I’ll get you yet ...’.at baby-doll (n.) under baby, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 119: We have roof-reverberating coon-shouters and a whizbang ragtime band.at whiz bang, adj.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 257: I’m doin’ time with a hang-over myself ... but it’s a beaut.at beaut, n.1
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 115: Al is thundering, ‘Bells, bells, bells! G’wan, try it again.’.at bells!, excl.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 29: Everybody said I was a smart guy and liked me because I got them a big boodle for a blow-out of wurst and candy.at boodle, n.1
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 59: It was the Five Points cellar places, where scrubwomen, mostly past middle age, begrimed, frowsy, boozed up, were available to the scanty purses of boys.at boozed, adj.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 263: ‘Good citizenship should not condone wrongdoing.’ I have repeated his memorable bromidiom.at bromide, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 31: Ikey is ‘on the bum,’ which is our idiomatic way of saying that a boy is not living at home.at on a/the bum under bum, n.3
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 150: ‘Hey, girlie,’ cries Al, ‘you’re making a bum outa the rehearsal.’.at make a bum of (v.) under bum, n.3
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 58: Though I was girl-crazy, I could not stand the tough babies. They were unfeminine little bummies, unkempt, hard-spoken and utterly without the shy charm of the flower breaking out of the bud, the rare quality that drew me to the nice girls.at bummer, n.3
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 252: You’re givin’ me the go-by. Please, Jack, don’t give me the go-by.at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 241: My chin seems to start at my cheek-bones. Hogshead belly and cabbage head.at cabbage-head, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 254: Now she’s old she keeps a nice, respectable call-flat.at call flat (n.) under call, v.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 79: The gang listens intently to the wisdom learned in the reform school [...] how to ‘crack’ a small safe ‘can-opener’ fashion.at can opener, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 132: Cheap gamblers, loaded-dice and cold-deck artists.at cold-deck artist (n.) under cold deck, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 20: I am the cover guy. In other words, I distract the owner and screen the thief.at cover, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 142: Youse seen what happened to dat spieler, well, culls, look out dat don’t happen to youse.at cull, n.1
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 37: I betcha you could knock daylight outa him even if he is your big brother.at beat the (living) daylight(s) out of (v.) under daylights, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 105: He was dressed in what Sam called hot-dog clothes.at hot dog, adj.1
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 94: He was nobody’s child – a door-step bastard.at doorstep baby (n.) under doorstep, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 32: G’wan up, you dope.at dope, n.2
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 218: I knew that Dopie Ikey could not withstand the cajolery [...] ‘Chief,’ I said, ‘one of these boys is weak-minded, nothing more than an idiot’.at dopey, n.3
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 8: We’ll give them what for any time they wants it.at give someone what-for (v.) under what-for, n.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 105: I’m waiting for a guy – gotta show it to him – Al Wolff, one wise gazabo.at gazabo, n.1
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 106: That’s when I’m gonna show them a combination step that’s gonna knock them for a gool.at goal, v.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 81: And who cramps us in stinking lousy holes and gouges us for big rents, eh, who? – American and German Jews.at gouge, v.1
Haunch Paunch and Jowl 142: Stay where youse are, youse guzzlers and lobbygows, youse lousey tripe, don’t move.at lobby-gow, n.
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