1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 211: When under the influence of a ‘whizbang,’ cocaine and morphine mixed together, he would ride millions of miles over endless valleys of snow.at whiz bang, n.2
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 291: I argued that one-eyed people could always see better than people with two eyes. Blink tried to believe me.at blink, n.1
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 213: When too destitute to ‘make a buy’ [...] he would seek other addicts and tell them marvelous tales until they would give him a ‘jolt’.at buy, n.
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 189: He knew that an addict ‘loaded on C’ was subject to wild and painful imaginings.at C, n.3
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 107: The railroads’ll run right along — the same old freights’ll bump over the same old rails — an’ all the Casey Joneses’ll blow their whistles – toot toot!at Casey Jones, n.
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 110: If one of us should be shuffled off to the gallows to dance with broken arches before Thy throne, it would not be amid such beauty.at dance, v.
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 246: They’re allus kind to a goofus when he gets old in the pen.at goofus, n.
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 76: Nitro was a past master at boiling dynamite. He would pour off the water and retain the oily substance [...] This was called ‘grease,’ or ‘soup’.at grease, n.1
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 214: The Mexican convicts called it ‘Greefo.’ Hypo called it ‘muggles’.at greefo, n.
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 266: Nitro Dugan [...] was in his own words ‘a woman hound.’ But Dugan had no prejudice against such boys. ‘I’m just not left-handed,’ he used to say.at left-handed, adj.
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 199: I went on the hop for her. Then, when I couldn’t ride no more, she wants to give me the high sign an’ run away with a travelin’ salesman.at high sign, n.
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 77: It was considered an ‘inside job.’ An employee was arrested.at inside job (n.) under inside, adj.
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 213: When too destitute to ‘make a buy’ [...] he would seek other addicts and tell them marvelous tales until they would give him a ‘jolt’.at jolt, n.
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 248: Don’t let him kid you, Dippy, he’s always lippin’ in.at lip in (v.) under lip, v.1
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 189: He knew that an addict ‘loaded on C’ was subject to wild and painful imaginings.at loaded, adj.
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 200: I was loaded up all the time on morph’ an’ coke – a-sniffin’ it till it’d go clear down to my belly an’ roll my brain over.at morf, n.
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 214: Hypo’s muggle cigarettes were cured in alcohol and dipped in perfume.at muggle, n.
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 247: He’s jist tryin’ to git your nanny.at get someone’s nanny (v.) under nanny, n.5
1930 J. Tully Shadows of Men 301: Blink doesn’t ask for a thin dime.at thin dime (n.) under thin, adj.2