1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 237: A reefer or muggle is blasted, banged, and blown—never smoked.at bang a reefer (v.) under bang, v.1
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 182: Pickpockets were cannons and each cannon mob was composed of specialists skilled in a particular phase [...] of separating a sucker from his poke.at cannon mob (n.) under cannon, n.2
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 206: Jenny the Scow and Cokey Flo boarded up their respective bordellos.at cokey, adj.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 76: The hacks don’t wan nobody sneakin the eatin tools outa the mess hall.at eating tool, n.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 236: The raw, fresh leaves of marijuana, gage, mota, gonga, griffo, tea, weed [...] are packed loosely in a small sized tobacco tin.at gonga, n.1
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 237: An addict is a viper, a snake, a goof, a T-man. In Dannemora we had mostly vipers.at goof, n.2
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 236: The raw, fresh leaves of marijuana, gage, mota, gonga, griffo, tea, weed [...] are packed loosely in a small sized tobacco tin.at greefo, n.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 182: I knew that [...] a high hat was an oversized pill.at high hat, n.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 182: The jostler’s task was distracting the victim’s attention, while the hook [...] extracted the wallet.at jostler, n.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 235: I got to dummy up about all the studs I know on the kick.at kick, n.5
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 182: The hook [...] extracted the wallet which would be immediately passed on to the leather glommer.at leather glommer (n.) under leather, n.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 198: There is the ever present threat of ‘getting your lumps’, which in official reports is blandly interpreted thus: [...] ‘Upon being apprehended the prisoner became violent and had to be subdued.’.at take one’s lumps (v.) under lump, n.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 236: The raw, fresh leaves of marijuana, gage, mota, gonga, griffo, tea, weed [...] are packed loosely in a small sized tobacco tin.at mota, n.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 237: A reefer or muggle is blasted, banged, and blown — never smoked.at muggle, n.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 234: He was a zoot-suiter and [...] single-o fancy man.at single-o, adj.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 196: We damn near crapped when the motor started up. It sounded like a thousand machine guns.at shit oneself, v.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 183: You’d be brought to the poky and put in a line-up.at pokey, n.2
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 270: Louieeeee! Stop beatin ya pup!at beat the pup (v.) under pup, n.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 237: A reefer or muggle is blasted, banged, and blown—never smoked.at bang a reefer (v.) under reefer, n.1
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 182: I became familiar with tools used for smoking opium — the Yen Hsh’ [sic] Gow for scraping the bowl.at yen-shee gow (n.) under yen-shee, n.
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 237: An addict is a viper, a snake, a goof, a T-man. In Dannemora we had mostly vipers, with the exception of a small, exclusive, super-hep group in which ‘snake’ was the label of distinction.at snake, n.4
1956 (con. 1940s) J. Resko Reprieve 237: An addict is a viper, a snake, a goof, a T-man. In Dannemora we had mostly vipers.at tea man (n.) under tea, n.