1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 72: The guys knew he only went for girls with action.at action, n.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 110: This Marchesi case was a pain in the ass.at pain in the arse, n.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 137: Aw! Blow it out, Sully. You think —.at blow it out your ass!, excl.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 285: He can go dragging his ass round the Hook if he thinks he can do better.at drag one’s ass, v.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 134: She goes assing around telling everybody my business.at ass around under ass, n.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 87: ‘You think they backed out?’ said Sully.at back out (v.) under back, v.2
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 41: ‘Is he bagged?’ ‘What do you think?’ Dotty said.at bagged, adj.3
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 75: His eyes moved to Wimpy. ‘How about the beanstalk?’.at beanstalk, n.1
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 21: And he wasn’t like his mother, taking his father’s blows and gum-beating all the time.at gum-beating, n.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 47: ‘Yellowguts! [...] Get down to the pier.’.at yellow belly, n.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 98: Jimmy clipped him alongside the ear with the billy.at billy, n.4
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 39: Imagine two bindle-stiffs [...] rolling Joe Brindo.at bindle stiff (n.) under bindle, n.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 131: You tell my friend Brindo, I got plenty of buckshot, but no snowbirds to shoot at.at snow bird, n.2
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 17: If they [i.e. the police] see the three of us knocking around, they gonna break our hump.at break someone’s hump (v.) under break, v.1
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 315: What a brown-nose job the bulls can do when you are nice.at brown nose, n.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 127: ‘You Wimp’s friends, no?’ ‘I don’t know [...] after he made bums of us today.’.at make a bum of (v.) under bum, n.3
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 22: In the early morning darkness, they were always bound to bunk into a shenango.at bunk into, v.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 171: Would he hold up? Or would he start singing, waiting for the last burn in death row?at burn, n.1
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 156: Alphonse Moulin [...] French-Canuck just down from the Michigan woods.at Canuck, n.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 157: Brindo almost stripped the gears and smashed the clock with his fist.at clock, n.1
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 251: I told you not to bring that cokey bastard.at cokey, adj.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 286: It’s that cokey kid from Herring and White.at cokey, adj.
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 174: He was a man of his word and never crossed anyone.at cross, v.1
1953 F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 254: None of yuh guys knew him, so what the hell yuh crying about.at cry, v.