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‘A Kentucky Story’ in S.F. Call Dec. 9: Hang the scrimpton, I rowed him up Salt River, and he’s gone home a little lighter than he came.at row someone up Salt River (v.) under Salt River, n.
‘A Kentucky Story’ in S.F. Call Dec. 9: Hang the scrimpton, I rowed him up Salt River, and he’s gone home a little lighter than he came. S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar [...] All the brass and all the needful, / All the spondulix and buttons, / All the rocks and all the mint-drops.at Benton’s mint drops, n.
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar.at brad, n.1
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar [...] All the dimes and all the horse-nails, / All the brass and all the needful.at brass, n.1
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar [...] All the tin he did inherit, / All the dibs he did discover, / All the browns his uncle lent him.at brown, n.
S.F. Call 9 Jan. 1/2: The ‘Bumming and Gassing Company’ were out in full strength, the novelty of labor being a new experience [DA].at bumming, n.
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar [...] All the brass and all the needful, / All the spondulix and buttons.at button, n.1
S.F. Call 25 Mar. 1/1: Finally, after floating through a mist of metaphors, his good nature gets the better of him; and he concludes to ‘call our hand’ [DA].at call someone’s hand (v.) under call, v.
‘Fighting the Tiger’ in S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: All the browns his uncle lent him, / All the chips and dust and clinkers.at chip, n.2
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar [...] All the dibs he did discover, / All the browns his uncle lent him, / All the chips and dust and clinkers.at chip, n.2
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus.at cleaned (out), adj.
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar [...] All the dibs he did discover, / All the browns his uncle lent him, / All the chips and dust and clinkers.at clinker, n.3
S.F. Call 3 Apr. 4: He’s got the thing all set to ring in a ‘cold deck,’ in which case he will deal himself four aces and his opponent four queens.at cold deck, n.
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar [...] All the tin he did inherit, / All the dibs he did discover.at dibbs, n.
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar / All the dough in his possession.at dough, n.
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar [...] All the dibs he did discover, / All the browns his uncle lent him, / All the chips and dust and clinkers, / All the dimes and all the horse-nails.at horse-nails (n.) under horse, n.
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus.at mopus, n.
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter.at pewter, n.
S.F. Call 6 Jan. 2/2: ‘Pungale down, gentlemen; come, pungale,’ as the vingt-et-un lady used to say [DA].at pungle, v.
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar [...] All the rowdy, all the stumpy.at rowdy, n.
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: ‘Answer the question.’ ‘Answer it yourself, if you can. I’m no sardine.’.at sardine, n.
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner.at shiner, n.1
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar [...] All the brass and all the needful, / All the spondulix and buttons.at spondulics, n.
S.F. Call 26 Mar. n.p.: [He] Went to fight the furious tiger, / Went to fight the beast at faro, / And was cleaned out so completely / That he lost his every mopus, / Every single speck of pewter, / Every solitary shiner, / Every brad and every dollar [...] All the rowdy, all the stumpy.at stumpy, n.1
S.F. Call 5 Dec. n.p.: You may think I’m a sucker.at sucker, n.1
S.F. Call n.p.: The Barbary Coast! That mysterious region so much talked of; so seldom visited! Of which so much is heard, but little seen! That sink of moral pollution, whose reefs are strewn with human wrecks, and into whose vortex is constantly drifting barks of moral life, while swiftly down the whirlpool of death go the sinking hulks of the murdered and the suicide.at Barbary Coast, n.
S.F. Call in Barbary Coast (1933) n.p.: How shocked they would be could they see them as they sit there now, ‘playing particular smash,’ as they are pleased to term it, with the feminine attaches of the Bella Union.at play smash (v.) under smash, n.1
S.F. Call 5 Sept. 2/6: [heading] Rolling a Drunk.at roll, v.
S.F. Call 10 Sept. 1/3: ‘The cold shoulder is a mild term. I got the cold cruel shake’.at give someone the shake (v.) under shake, n.1
S.F. Call 1 Aug. 2/2: Hagearty’s is well known as the resort of the university boys who desire what they technically term as a ‘beer bust’.at beer bust (n.) under beer, n.
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