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Jack-Roller 115: We went across the street to have some ‘coffee and’.at coffee-and, n.
Jack-Roller 115: We went across the street to have some ‘coffee and’. Jack-Roller 85: My buddy, being an old ‘jack-roller,’ suggested ‘jack-rolling’ as a way out of the delima. So we started to ‘put the strong arm’ on drunks.at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
Jack-Roller 100: I thought if I was to go back to the ‘bandhouse’ I’d rather have some new scenery.at bandhouse, n.
Jack-Roller 144: We had to give them a tip on the head with our ‘billy’ or give them the strong arm to avoid noise.at billy, n.4
Jack-Roller 84: I worked with girls and we joked and fooled around too much, so at the end of the first week I got the ‘bounce’.at get the bounce (v.) under bounce, n.1
Jack-Roller 128: The ‘brakie’ woke me up, dragged me off the coal-heap.at brakie, n.
Jack-Roller 11: Besides robbin the gang went bummin downtown and to ball parks and swimming.at bum, v.3
Jack-Roller 52: We gathered cigarette ‘buttses’ along the street and took them to a shed, where we smoked.at butt, n.1
Jack-Roller 161: One day he found a ‘deck’ of ‘M’ tied in her handkerchief.at deck, n.4
Jack-Roller 59: Everybody thought there was something wrong with me. They had my head examined to see if I was a ‘dummie’.at dummy, n.1
Jack-Roller 100: One guy who had done time said, ‘A year wasn’t so much, he could do that on his ear.’.at on one’s ear under ear, n.1
Jack-Roller 137: We took our provisions and, following the directions of a fellow-floater, we entered the ‘jungle’.at floater, n.1
Jack-Roller 128: I waited at the depot and caught the Omaha Limited ‘on the fly’.at on the fly under fly, n.1
Jack-Roller 94: I ‘hit’ him for a cigarette.at hit for, v.
Jack-Roller 123: He put up an oily line of gab.at gab, n.2
Jack-Roller 93: I was ‘given the gate’ at the end of the week.at give someone the gate (v.) under gate, n.
Jack-Roller 147: Prisoners are herded and kicked and cuffed and razzed like brutes. This is called ‘showing the goldfish’ or the ‘third degree’.at goldfish, n.3
Jack-Roller 118: He later said I was laid off. I said, ‘Like hell, I’m laid off! You can go straight to hell. I have quit!’.at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
Jack-Roller 161: He repaid me by telling me of his experiences in life, how he started to ‘hit M’ (morphine).at hit, v.
Jack-Roller 56: I felt that I could get along some way on my own hook.at on one’s own hook under hook, n.1
Jack-Roller 125: He tore into me for calling him ‘nigger.’.at tear into, v.
Jack-Roller 85: My buddy, being an old ‘jack-roller,’ suggested ‘jack-rolling’ as a way out of the delima. So we started to ‘put the strong arm’ on drunks.at jack roller, n.
Jack-Roller 85: My buddy, being an old ‘jack-roller,’ suggested ‘jack-rolling’ as a way out of the delima. So we started to ‘put the strong arm’ on drunks.at jackroll, v.
Jack-Roller 16: I and two other guys waited close to the alley [...] We were going to give ‘jiggers’.at give jiggers (v.) under jigger!, excl.
Jack-Roller 202: There is a joint (meaning a place to rob) I’m going to make soon.at joint, n.
Jack-Roller 157: He seemed to delight in razzing the negroes and ‘junkers’ [...] Junkers (dope fiends) are considered a low class by the guards and get treated like niggers.at junker, n.
Jack-Roller 96: We [...] started to ‘strong arm’ ‘live ones’ (drunks with money).at live one, n.
Jack-Roller 161: He repaid me by telling me of his experiences in life, how he started to ‘hit M’ (morphine).at M, n.
Jack-Roller 141: This alley was usually filled with a large number of ‘newsies’ and truck chauffeurs.at newsie, n.
Jack-Roller 130: The landlady had two daughters, and I sort of shined up to them.at sort of, phr.
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