1919 G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 He drew his colleagues into one corner of the little cubbyhole that serves as a sweat box down at the ninth precinct station.at sweat-box, n.
1933 G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘The Silenced Partner’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Did you know your pal, Morris, was a junky?at junkie, n.
1933 G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘The Silenced Partner’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Willy Morris, of the long-established confidence firm of Pollet & Morris, replied. He was seated in their ‘office’ one story above Main Street.at office, n.
1933 G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘The Silenced Partner’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Marshal Lindsey hobbled into the corner drugstore to say hello to the all-night soda pusher.at pusher, n.
1933 G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘The Silenced Partner’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 We’re a couple of smart guys [...] Didn’t we clean up near fifty grand.at smart guy (n.) under smart, adj.
1935 G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 We haven’t had a cheep out of Sammy.at cheep, n.
1935 G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Then the ‘blind’ man legged for the alley with Brunt’s wild, hot lead singing music about his head.at leg, v.1
1935 G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Bill Krantz was behind the mahogany, but he did not press the warning button beneath the counter.at mahogany, n.
1935 G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Brunt husked his voice [...] ‘Keep yer pants on, Danny.’.at keep your pants on! (excl.) under pants, n.
1935 G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 But not telling me is worth a punch on the schnozzle.at schnozzle, n.
1935 G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 All kinds of guys go there—even stiff shirts.at stuffed shirt, n.
1935 G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 Sergeant Brunt used human bait to hook the snatch mobsters.at snatch, n.
1937 T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ in Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 Honest, officer, my reputation is A Number One.at A-1, adj.
1937 T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ in Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 A dick just walked in here an hour ago and took the car to headquarters. How d’ya like them berries, hey?at how do you like them apples?, phr.
1937 T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ in Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 Suppose we gilly this bus just outside of Tampa on some side road?at gilly, v.
1937 T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ in Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 Although I think you knew this car was red hot, I am going to give you a break.at red-hot, adj.
1937 T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ in Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 No one had ever suggested that Stoneparte Service — The Best in Good Used Cars — was a junkolo trap.at junker, n.
1937 T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 All you have to do in order to save your fat body from a condition resembling a sieve, due to a large peppering of lead, is to remain quiet.at pepper, v.
1937 T. Thursday ‘License for Theft’ in Ten Detective Aces Sept. 🌐 John Stoneparte, master of the art of spieling.at spieling, n.
1940 S. McBarron ‘Coffin Custodian’ Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 You see, his fighter, Slug-daffy Harney, batted a young girl to death one night in a drunken rage.at bat, v.
1940 J. Archibald ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 Me and Snooty Piper walk very briskly into the old Colonial wigwam—out in Newton, a suburb of Beantown.at Bean Town (n.) under bean, n.1
1940 S. McBarron ‘Coffin Custodian’ Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 ‘If you don’t get that hospital destination out of your brain, I’ll splatter it all over your boat.’ [...] ‘Okay, mister. Where do you want I should drop ya?’.at boat, n.1
1940 J. Archibald ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 Them Chinks’ll commit murder t’ git the bones of their relatives back to a Chinese bone orchard.at bone orchard (n.) under bone, n.1
1940 J. Archibald ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 I bet he is a long-faced bosco with a purplish bugle.at bosco, n.
1940 J. Archibald ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 I come chop-chop. Velly fast.at chop-chop, adv.
1940 J. Archibald ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 A Chinaman will shoot the works [...] when it comes to boxing the bones of an honorable benefactor [...]. But no chop suey citizen is chump enough to chase back to where he left a stiff.at chop suey, adj.
1940 S. McBarron ‘Coffin Custodian’ Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 I saw his pudgy hand go out in a gesture to the cokey at the end of the bar.at cokie, n.
1940 S. McBarron ‘Coffin Custodian’ Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 The girl on the bed was looking up from her magazine at me [...] said: ‘Look, cream puff. How’s about being a sport and cutting me down?’.at cream puff, n.1
1940 S. McBarron ‘Coffin Custodian’ Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 I was remembering something the instructor at Flatfoot School teaches all his little rookies.at flatfoot, n.
1940 J. Archibald ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 ‘You better talk or you will glit blig hotfloot!’ Snooty says to the China boy.at hot foot, n.