1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 114: I was still awfully weak and wrung out.at wrung out (like a dishcloth), adj.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 135: I think he’d have had a knockdown drag-out fight on his hands.at knock-down (and) drag-out, n.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 7: He’d played up exactly the right customers [...] kissing their tails, making them trust him.at kiss someone’s arse, v.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 58: I’d got to grab-assing around with Fay Winroy.at grab-ass, v.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 107: The fast meat train that balls the jack all the way into El Reno.at ball the jack, v.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 88: You [...] let me in for a bawling out from that damned snotty Dodson.at bawling out, n.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 105: You were right on the beam — playing all the angles.at on the beam (adj.) under beam, n.3
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 105: I did a belly whopper to the floor.at belly whopper (n.) under belly, n.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 27: I’d put the bite on a big flash-looking guy for coffee money.at put the bite on (v.) under bite, n.1
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 122: They [...] had said that I’d stolen his mother and father blind.at blind, adv.1
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 105: A punchy booze-stupe [...] could come along and put the blocks to you.at put a/the block on (v.) under block, n.6
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 109: She might blow up — jump Jake about it or give it away to someone else.at blow up, v.1
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 107: Taking on the boes for a dime or a nickel or a cart of coffee.at bo, n.1
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 83: He was all duked out in a hard-boiled collar and a blue serge suit.at hard-boiled collar (n.) under hard-boiled, adj.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 66: Tell me you haven’t been leading me on, acting hardboiled and easy to get.at hard-boiled, adj.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 63: He had a pretty good idea that he’d pulled a boner.at pull a boner (v.) under boner, n.3
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 5: Jake is the key witness in that big bookie case.at bookie, n.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 8: He’d dropped out of the bootleg racket before the war.at bootleg, adj.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 105: A punchy booze-stupe without enough guts to string a uke.at booze stupe (n.) under booze, n.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 105: Doing things twice as well as you thought you could and getting some breaks thrown in.at break, n.1
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 136: The county attorney was going up the stairs, and the deputy took us into the c.a.’s office.at c.a., n.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 107: Taking on the boes for a dime or a nickel or a cart of coffee.at cart, n.3
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 79: Who pulled your chain, grandpa?at who pulled your chain?, phr.
1953 J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 126: I took a bottle up to my room with me, and I got half cockeyed.at cock-eyed, adj.2