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[US] W.F. Whyte Street Corner Society (1955) 26: The bowling was followed by ‘coffee-ands’ at Jennings’.
at coffee-and, n.
[US] W.F. Whyte Street Corner Society (1955) 120: There’s the strong-arm men, they protect the business when it gets going.
at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
[US] W.H. Whyte Street Corner Society (1955) 115: Doc once commented: I’m batted out. I’m so batted out that I didn’t have a nickel to put on the number today.
at bat oneself out (v.) under bat, v.
[US] W.F. Whyte Street Corner Society (1955) 45: Of course, a Buick is a big thing.
at big thing, n.
[US] W.F. Whyte Street Corner Society (1955) 50: He’s a bull-slinger.
at bull slinger (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] W.F. Whyte Street Corner Society (1955) 101: Finally he did me dirt.
at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
[US] W.F. Whyte Street Corner Society (1955) 163: They are going to show you plenty of finifs, sawbucks, and double sawbucks.
at finnif, n.
[US] W.F. Whyte Street Corner Society (1955) xx: The Italian-born are known to the younger generation as ‘greasers’.
at greaser, n.1
[US] W.F. Whyte Street Corner Society (1955) 6: We didn’t lush (steal from a drunk).
at lush roll (v.) under lush, n.1
[US] W.F. Whyte Street Corner Society (1955) 134: They just want to make a pinch. Even if we pay them off, we have to take the pinches too.
at take a pinch (v.) under pinch, n.
[US] W.F. Whyte Street Corner Society (1955) 29: Let them go out with the girls. They’ve pulled a few fast ones.
at pull, v.
[US] W.F. Whyte Street Corner Society (1955) 45: Sometimes, just to steam me up, Danny tells Spongi to send me on an errand.
at steam up (v.) under steam, v.1
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