1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 105: ‘You know what a. and b. is?’ ‘Assault and battery.’.at a. and b., n.
1967 J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 3: Hardly a man-jack among them with more than [...] the raggedy-ass clothes he wore.at ragged-arsed, adj.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 69: It was impossible for them to dog it as a muck-stick artist could.at -artist, sfx
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 12: You sure as heck ought to know it.at sure as hell under sure as..., phr.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 187: Everyone was barely dragging tail.at drag ass, v.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 116: That shitass! I mean a real lawyer.at shit ass, n.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 62: I want you to stop acting like Goddammned dreamy horse’s ass.at horse’s ass, n.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 169: Everyone seemed to be grab-assing.at grab-ass, v.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 157: Have you been popping off around camp about this?at pop off (at the mouth), v.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 113: A character who backtalked and roughed up a cop.at back-talk, v.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 95: The big boy didn’t tell you, huh?at big boy, n.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 123: I put on my hat and picked up my bindle.at bindle, n.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 46: Wingy was a boomer — a guy who made the boom camps.at boomer, n.3
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 151: I braced Whitey for it [i.e. a job].at brace, v.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 180: The pipeline bigshots your gang is bucking.at buck, v.2
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 183: Forget Higby, I’m only putting the bug on my own back.at bug, n.4
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 44: I’ve been tossing the bull around.at toss the bull around (v.) under bull, n.6
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 110: Do you remember that big bust we went on in Dallas?at bust, n.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 55: He knocked me cold with a hard clip to the button.at button, n.1
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 95: We’ll do [...] [e]very damned bit of it before we button up the day.at button up the day (v.) under button, v.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 143: Copper had hired on late with a bad case of the brokes.at case of the brokes (n.) under case, n.1
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 99: I felt [...] Shabby, cheap, crummy — all those things.at cheap, adj.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 72: Maybe the line’s backers wouldn’t turn out to be so chinchy.at chinchy, adj.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 25: Better start walking, you cheap chiseling punk!at chisel, v.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 109: I told him that the chow was good.at chow, n.1
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 146: You had to be chumped for murderin’ Bud.at chump, v.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 213: I’d probably be dead right now of syph or clap.at clap, n.
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 216: That last sentence was the clincher for me.at clincher, n.1
1967 (con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 55: He knocked me cold with a hard clip to the button.at clip, n.2