1895 H. Ellis Criminal 163: From Scotland we borrow duds for clothes, and from the Hebrew shoful for base coin.at shoful, n.
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 92: I don’t give a fast-day fart for what he said.at not care a fart, v.
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 108: The most uppity, no-account nigger in the country.at no-account nigger (n.) under no-account, adj.
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 59: The d.a. told the matron to catch some air.at catch air (v.) under air, n.
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 86: You sweated that kid until he didn’t know his ass from an adding machine.at not know one’s arse/ass from... (v.) under arse, n.
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 49: Telling him he was asleep at the switch.at asleep at the switch, adj.
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 53: Always tossing weight around and getting nothing but his ass out of joint.at get one’s ass out of joint under ass, n.
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 55: All we’ve got to go on is [...] what that lardassed d.a. says.at lard-assed, adj.
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 71: Tell him you tried to push the wrong guy around, and he’s got you over a barrel.at have someone over a barrel (v.) under barrel, n.1
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 82: The poor old biddy actually twitched her butt at me.at biddy, n.2
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 3: A gopher will have eaten up what blamed little lawn we have left.at blame, adj.
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 83: I was putting the block to him.at put the blocks on (v.) under block, n.6
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 50: She was pretty much of a chaser. She’d take out after anything that wore pants.at chaser, n.1
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 64: The kid’s teacher [...] was a pretty tough nut to crack.at crack, v.2
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 9: The commercial stuff you get down is a darned far cry from the government-contract jobs.at darned, adv.
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 82: We’ll give your old man a sleeping pill and throw a wingding.at wing-ding, n.
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 106: He done plenty dirt to me.at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 22: You figure everyone’s out to do you so you do them first.at do, v.1
1953 J. Thompson Criminal (1993) 75: I was going to call him myself if you hadn’t got firsts on the phone.at firsts, n.