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[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 103: She’s a lot of fun and she plays the accordion.
at accordion, n.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 21: If we’re not willing to give it away, we won’t sell it at any price.
at give it away, v.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 55: Between the dope and trying to please the girls he’s pretty beat up.
at beat-up, adj.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 69: She wound up in the bughouse after taking some pills.
at bughouse, n.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 5: Call houses are a thing of the past in New York.
at call house, n.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 57: I wouldn’t take nothing from nobody. Those Johns knew better than to cut up around my place.
at cut up, v.1
[US] Jess Stearn Sisters of the Night 59: ‘If you can’t buy H or M, why, demmies will do the trick.’.
at demis, n.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 39: Tom picked up six sticks [...] We were going to do them up in the show.
at do up, v.1
[US] Jess Stearn Sisters of the Night 10: When she learns to make with the fancy talk [...] she’ll be in the dough.
at in the dough under dough, n.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 55: I don’t think he’d plead the Fifth.
at plead the fifth (v.) under fifth, the, n.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 64: These madams make big promises, but I delivered the goods.
at deliver the goods (v.) under goods, n.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 57: When a John gave them a hard time, I’d go after him with a [baseball] bat.
at give someone a hard time (v.) under hard time, n.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 17: Touring these honkytonk bars [...] I had met the B-girls.
at honkytonk, n.1
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 48: Inside [the bar] things were hopping.
at hopping, adj.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 68: That Patsy sure knew how to pour it on. All evening she cried.
at pour it on, v.
[US] Jess Stearn Sisters of the Night 55: He’s in and out of Riker’s Island, trying to kick-off the dope.
at kick off (v.) under kick, v.4
[US] Jess Stearn Sisters of the Night 54: These bar owners aren’t bothering with anything as obvious as kickbacks.
at kickback, n.1
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 52: I’d get canned if I took a live one out of here.
at live one, n.
[US] J. Stern Sisters of the Night 5: Clerks, bellhops and elevator operators were recruited to steer the customers – the ‘Johns’ or ‘meatballs’ – to the selected suites.
at meatball, n.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 43: If Peggy had been prettier [...] she might have been a call or a pony girl. [...] A pony is a cross between a B-girl and a call-girl.
at pony, n.
[US] Jess Stearn Sisters of the Night 55: Even Polly Adler, in her heyday, was small potatoes.
at small potatoes, n.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 82: If he finds out I’m a pros, that would end it.
at pros, n.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 11: One night he gave me the routine.
at routine, n.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 7: Talk to the [...] social workers, the cops, the headshrinkers.
at head-shrinker (n.) under shrink, n.1
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 66: He said [...] tapping his head, ‘here’s where they got to cure you – upstairs.’.
at upstairs, adv.
[US] J. Stearn Sisters of the Night 73: Most of the prostitutes in Women’s Court looked as if they had been put through a wringer.
at put through a/the wringer (v.) under wringer, n.1
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