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[US] 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
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 81: What’s the matter, Husky, old snowbird.
at snow bird, n.1
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 61: On Sunday we got black-jack coffee.
at blackjack, n.1
[US] 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
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 187: [chapter title] Bull Horrors.
at bull horrors, n.1
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 199: Yes, you’re cockeyed right, I would.
at cock-eyed, adj.1
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 83: You git that – you bread beggars – you crums.
at crum, n.
[US] 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.
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 49: That damn pie-faced jury.
at pie-faced, adj.
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 246: They’re allus kind to a goofus when he gets old in the pen.
at goofus, n.
[US] 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
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 214: The Mexican convicts called it ‘Greefo.’ Hypo called it ‘muggles’.
at greefo, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 77: It was considered an ‘inside job.’ An employee was arrested.
at inside job (n.) under inside, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 199: Then I loads up on heroin.
at load up (v.) under load, v.
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 189: He knew that an addict ‘loaded on C’ was subject to wild and painful imaginings.
at loaded, adj.
[US] 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.
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 214: Hypo’s muggle cigarettes were cured in alcohol and dipped in perfume.
at muggle, n.
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 247: He’s jist tryin’ to git your nanny.
at get someone’s nanny (v.) under nanny, n.5
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 215: After a long smoke Hypo would imagine he was dying.
at smoke, n.
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 194: A sniff will last about fifteen minutes.
at sniff, n.
[US] J. Tully Shadows of Men 301: Blink doesn’t ask for a thin dime.
at thin dime (n.) under thin, adj.2
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