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Gang in Yablonsky (1962) n.p.: They used to ‘get’ the ‘niggers’ as they came from the stock yards at Forty-seventh and Racine.at get, v.
Gang in Yablonsky (1962) n.p.: They used to ‘get’ the ‘niggers’ as they came from the stock yards at Forty-seventh and Racine. Gang 15: In this region of contrasting social conditions are high-class colored residential neighborhoods, as well as ‘black and tan’ cabarets, white and colored vice resorts.at black and tan, adj.
Gang 153: About six of us went robbin’ government property on the railroads. A man with a bullshiner and a 45-automatic said ‘Stand!’.at bull-shiner (n.) under bull, n.1
Gang 169: The gang bummed school two weeks to take a camping trip to Fox Lake. We did not have no money; we must think up a scheme to get some.at bum, v.4
Gang 340: ‘A handsome boy [...] Cakie’.at cake, n.1
Gang 216: Some of the boys of that [poor] part of the town came out yelling ‘candy kids’ and began throwing stones.at candy kid, n.
Gang 8: Here is a Polish colony called by the gang boy ‘Pojay Town,’ in contradistinction to ‘Dago Town’ described above.at dago town (n.) under dago, adj.1
Gang 340: ‘Some special habit or aptitude [...] Dopey (drug addict)’.at dopie, n.1
Gang 180: Edmond Werner, fifteen, self-styled leader of the roving Northwest Side gang which carries the cognomen of the ‘Belmonts’—and pockets of darnicks.at dornick, n.1
Gang 121: We used to flip the freights [...] but we got caught at Waukegan and were sent home.at flip, v.1
Gang 347: Sometimes if the leader is licked, the whole gang turns in and there is a free-for-all fight pending the defeat of one side or the other or the arrival of the flivver squad from police headquarters.at flivver squad (n.) under flivver, n.
Gang 76: In conventionalized gangs, a definite rule with regard to age is customary; this, however, usually is not enforced, or if it is, boys of the barred ages may still be hangers-on, ‘fringers,’ or an affiliated group.at fringer, n.
Gang 267: Fruit—easy mark.at fruit, n.
Gang 238: The gang shag is an institution peculiar to gangs and clubs of this neighbourhood. [Ibid.] 267: Gang shag—sex party in the alley.at gang-shag, n.
Gang 63: ‘[T]he ‘cops were always picking us [i.e. gang boys] up and we liked to get them going’.at get going, v.
Gang 222: The leader of our gang was what is usually termed a ‘hard rock.’ He was the leader because he was the ‘hardest’ .at hard rock, n.
Gang 315: The gang does not engage in shoplifting [...] They prefer the less risky business of ‘making’ (robbing) the drunks. [...] ‘They hop the poor drunken Polish fellows,’ said Silver.at hop, v.1
Gang 90: Crap-shooting, or ‘indoor golf,’ [...] has been called the African national game.at indoor golf (n.) under indoor, adj.
Gang 151: Five of my gang would go on a car-robbing expedition at once. Two would watch to give ‘jiggers’ on either side of the track, while the other three of us would break the seal on the car.at jigger!, excl.
Gang 58: [in context of street crap-shooting] ‘Jigs, de bulls!’ someone would shout, and they would scatter.at jigs!, excl.
Gang 267: Loogins, yannigens — newcomers, second team, bumpkins.at loogan, n.
Gang 340: ‘A hard boy [...] Nails’.at nails, n.
Gang 340: ‘An unmanly boy [. . .] Nellie’.at nellie, n.
Gang 222: The leader of our gang was what is usually termed a ‘hard rock.’ He was the leader because he was the ‘hardest’ .at step out, v.
Gang 128: ‘[T]he police had to put a stop to [gang thefts] by picking participants up and putting them into the ‘paddy’ wagons’.at paddy wagon (n.) under Paddy, n.
Gang 128: ‘The watchman from the Santa Fe would always shag us and shoot a couple of times into the air, but he could never catch us’.at shag, v.2
Gang 94: ‘Sometimes we’d raid ice-cream wagons. If the driver saw us, he would jump off and give us a shag’.at shag, n.2
Gang 267: Shiners, shinkers—black eyes.at shiner, n.1
Gang 347: At the top are the professional criminals [...] the so called ‘silk-hat’ gangsters.at silk stocking, adj.
Gang 50: The most rudimentary form of collective behavior in the gang is interstimulation and response among its own members— [...] the rehearsal of adventure, or a ‘smut session’.at smut session (n.) under smut, n.
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