1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 93: The boys request the pleasure of your company at their joint tomorrow aft. to drink a slug of good stuff.at aft, n.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 50: Why, people would get to looking arsepants at a real nice head. [Ibid.] 255: arsepants, askance.at arsepants under arse, n.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday 135: Mack’s tom-wallager had achieved the stature of a bull-bitch tom-wallager.at bull-bitch, adj.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 127: I tell you she’s a blowed-in-the-glass lady.at blown-in-the-glass, adj.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 186: I’d hate to testify about this. I’d get the booby-hatch!at booby-hatch, n.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 125: She threw the book at me.at throw the book at (v.) under book, n.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 132: He’s a gone goose. He got a born-on Oregon boot. [Ibid.] 255: Oregon boots, handcuffs.at Oregon boot, n.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 67: If there’s a bughouser within miles he’s drawn to me.at bughouse, n.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 23: A lot of people are going to cash in their chips.at cash in one’s chips (v.) under chip, n.2
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 23: You play some of the churchy music to her.at churchy, adj.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 127: Might make her fly the coop.at fly the coop (v.) under coop, n.1
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 120: We ain’t going to see our darling friend crap out if we can help it.at crap out, v.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 162: How you razzle-dazzled the Patron out of twenty-five dollars I don’t know.at razzle-dazzle, v.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 232: It’s all I have. I’m a dead duck without it.at dead duck, n.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 6: The guy’s writing it, give him a chance to do a little hooptedoodle. Spin up some pretty words maybe.at hoop-te-doodle, n.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 255: double-header, double feature programme, two games on the same day.at double-header (n.) under double, adj.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 17: You’re nice, Doc, nice and egg-heady, but a guy would have to be nuts to think you was smart.at egghead, adj.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 211: Cheeseburger coming up. Sorry, eighty-six on the tuna fish sandwiches.at eighty-six, v.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 131: I may just call Joe Blaikey and get you floated out of town.at float, v.1
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 21: Joseph and Mary was given a floater so strongly worded that it singed his eyelashes. The police even bought him a bus ticket.at floater, n.3
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 132: Holy apples! He’s a gone goose.at gone goose (n.) under gone, adj.1
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 93: The boys request the pleasure of your company at their joint tomorrow aft. to drink a slug of good stuff.at good stuff (n.) under good, adj.1
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 90: Mrs. Malloy’s slinging hash in a grease joint.at grease joint (n.) under grease, n.1
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 94: Just keep your heads shut and let me do the thinking.at shut one’s head (v.) under head, n.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 94: Just keep your heads shut and let me do the thinking.at keep one’s head shut (v.) under head, n.