1953 T. Runyon In For Life 14: We lived almost within whoop-and-holler distance of the Hatfield-McCoy trouble.at whoop and a holler, n.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 33: We never tried to rob a bank during ‘amateur hour’ — at noon, when all bankers seemingly expected to be robbed and prepared for it.at amateur hour (n.) under amateur, n.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 243: The knock-down-and-drag-out battles he fought from month to month.at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adj.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 100: It’s probably a stew-for-beans proposition between him and that gunsel — for my money, if you’ll put you’ll take.at if you’ll put you’ll take under put and take, n.1
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 282: I refused to have anything in the Presidio that might sound like apple-polishing.at apple polish, v.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 270: All nut doctors are the same [...] They just want to know if you play with yourself.at play with oneself (v.) under play (at)..., v.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 57: I was looking more criminal by the minute as time neared for me to go to bat for my life before the judge.at go to bat (v.) under bat, v.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 100: It’s probably a stew-for-beans proposition between him and that gunsel — for my money, if you’ll put you’ll take.at stew-for-beans, adj.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 131: The Warden invited me to belly up to a full-fledged bar.at belly up (to), v.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 147: High jinks in some frontier town bucket-of-blood saloon.at bloody bucket (n.) under bloody, adj.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 233: At times the stony lonesomes put the blue boots to me.at blue boots (n.) under blue, adj.1
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 9: How it feels to ‘do the book’ in one.at do the book (v.) under book, n.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 95: I could [...] make my own nitroglycerin from stolen dynamite and use the grease to crack a box.at box, n.1
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 60: Instead of being blackjacked or flogged or threatened with a sweat box, I was de-ironed and de-escorted.at sweat-box, n.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 95: The box men [...] were run-of-the-mill, reasonably skilled men who made big scores seldom.at boxman, n.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 99: I’ve seen the patient papas carrying sacks of canteen stuff for their boys — also known as bronchos, gunsels, kazoonies, kids, brats, and, mostly, punks.at brat, n.1
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 93: Training to steal more efficiently once they hit the bricks again.at hit the bricks (v.) under bricks, n.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 99: I’ve seen the patient papas carrying sacks of canteen stuff for their boys — also known as bronchos, gunsels, kazoonies, kids, brats, and, mostly, punks.at bronco, n.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 289: An innovation that had me bug-eyed when I first heard of it.at bug-eyed, adj.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 70: He looked like a bully from way back, but he never bulldozed me.at bulldose, v.
1953 T. Runyon In For Life 115: They finally had a chance to show what they thought of guards without being burned for doing so.at burn, v.