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Babe Gordon choose

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[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 28: ‘Listen, airedale,’ she said, ‘if I want you I’ll whistle for you.’.
at airedale, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 97: A happy, big-boy expression lighted the Bearcat’s face.
at big boy, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 115: Up in Harlem the Bearcat was regarded with contempt. He was laughed at as a ‘farce’, a ‘lemon’ and a ‘bust’.
at bust, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 64: Why, you goddam, low-down, ten-cent bum!
at two-cent, adj.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 24: What a chassis you got, Bearcat!
at chassis, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 246: Pinhead burned a heavy incense to smother the fumes of the drug [...] she knew that he was ‘cheffing’ for Money Johnson.
at chef, v.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 132: He choked down the speed of the car.
at choke, v.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 121: Look at you. Must be a hostess in some chop suey dance hall.
at chop suey, adj.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 29: They worked the streets [...] waiting for downtown explorers that needed a ‘steer’ to dope or wanted to be led to a ‘circus’.
at circus, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 11: Coke pedlar and sniffer made their ‘connection’ in safety.
at connection, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 183: There’s four two-and-a-half-grain cubes of morphine in there.
at cube, n.1
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 14: A classy dinge passed them by and gave Babe the eye.
at dinge, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 174: Lou an’ Harry gives me the double-X. Goddam ’em!
at double-X, n.2
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 174: The double-crossin’ heel! [...] Stole the job I would’ve got if I hadn’t put her wise to it. The cesspool eel!
at eel, n.2
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 13: He wanted a fix-up of coke.
at fix-up, n.1
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 126: One-third on everything. Morphine, heroin, and coke. Is it a go?
at go, n.1
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 15: The girls were bombarded with an avalanche of reek. ‘Hello there Babe!’ [...] ‘Hot shot! Here’s the hot-point sisters again!’.
at hot-shot, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 75: Bearcat’s manager K.O.’s romance for the big Bearcat.
at k.o., v.1
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 167: Money Johnson, the ‘policy king’, was arrested on a gambling charge.
at -king, sfx
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 121: Charlie puts the knocks in against me with the Bearcat.
at put the knock on (v.) under knock, n.1
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 29: They worked the streets till they made enough for a few drinks and then they parked around Fifth Avenue creep joints, waiting for downtown explorers that needed a ‘steer’ to dope or wanted to be led to a ‘circus’. [...] There was more money in this racket and it was easier. It took energy to be a leg worker, and they were wasted skeletons.
at leg worker, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 136: Who’s steppin’ around?
at step out, v.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 248: Parkin’ wid Money Johnson, dat’s whut dat mess o’ sin doin’.
at park, v.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 159: Ah hears all duh yalla gals jus’ ’bout goin’ crazy since Money gone pink-chasin’!
at pink, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 161: Dis new pink gal o’ his ain’t gonna have Money long ef Big Ida gits a-hold o’ him.
at pink, adj.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 159: Dere goes Money Johnson wit’ his ofay broad. [...] Lor’, chile, he ain’t dealin’ in nothin’ now but pink-toes!
at pinktoe, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 15: The girls were bombarded with an avalanche of reek. ‘Hello there Babe! You’re lookin’ good, kid, even if you don’t get out of bed much.’ ‘Hot shot! Here’s the hot-point sisters again!’.
at reek, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 178: Stop yo’ shuckin,’ Miss Gordon.
at shuck, v.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 20: ‘What kind of a socker is he?’ ‘A middleweight.’.
at socker, n.
[US] M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 19: Give me a healthy spaghetti-twister any time.
at spaghetti bender (n.) under spaghetti, n.
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