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Hop-Heads 26: A week or more passes of that awful agony, and then comes what we call the ‘long gut,’ the ‘big hunger’.at long belly, n.
Hop-Heads 26: A week or more passes of that awful agony, and then comes what we call the ‘long gut,’ the ‘big hunger’. Hop-Heads 25: I went into the ‘big house’ (penitentiary) a bad boy. I came out a hard man.at big house, n.
Hop-Heads 17: The table was littered with the layout of a drug victim – from the fire blackened spoon [...] to the ‘bindles’ (packages) of ‘c’.at bindle, n.
Hop-Heads 21: ‘Coke bugs!’ she exclaimed in surprise. ‘You’ve seen “fiends” have them, of course. Imagine bugs are under the skin. Comes from seeing the shadow of the needle on your arm when you’re taking a “shot”.’.at coke bugs (n.) under bug, n.4
Hop-Heads 21: ‘May’ll be having bugs in a few minutes.’ [...] ‘Bugs?’ I queried at the risk of showing gross ignorance. ‘Coke bugs!’ she exclaimed in surprise. ‘You’ve seen “fiends” have them, of course. Imagine bugs are under the skin. Comes from seeing the shadow of the needle on your arm when you’re taking a “shot”.’.at have bugs (in the head) (v.) under bug, n.4
Hop-Heads 68: Knocking around under the sidewalks on the bum with birds like these.at on a/the bum under bum, n.3
Hop-Heads 17: The table was littered with [...] the ‘bindles’ (packages) of ‘c’ (cocaine).at C, n.3
Hop-Heads 25: Whenever I get a ‘jolt’ in the can (county jail) they make me ‘kick out’ my habit in the ‘tanks’.at can, n.1
Hop-Heads 111: A card of opium is sold in the dens for $1. There are four smoking pills to a card.at card, n.2
Hop-Heads 95: We’ll sit down here and ‘chow’.at chow, v.2
Hop-Heads 66: There’s always a coke party on down here after 1 and 2 in the morning.at coke party (n.) under coke, n.1
Hop-Heads 33: I was in a cold sweat when I went out to ‘connect’.at connect, v.
Hop-Heads 17: Dawson Sue lost no time in ‘cooking up a shot’ for her company.at cook up, v.
Hop-Heads 113: It is the unwritten law of the average opium den that a man tend the pipe of his woman companion as well as his own, rolling and cooking her ‘pills’.at cook, v.1
Hop-Heads 102: ‘Blackie’ pulled out a big knife and helped himself to two grains and a half of coke. ‘Japanese crystal,’ he said, squinting at the stuff.at crystal, n.
Hop-Heads 24: We used to sit around and ‘cut up touches’ [...] Swap yarns on jobs we’d pulled.at cut up, v.1
Hop-Heads 76: Penny Meade is one of the famous ‘dips’ (pick-pockets) of the New York underworld.at dip, n.1
Hop-Heads 76: He got a ‘rumble,’ too. Came near to being ‘ditched.’ But the ‘fall dough’ saved him.at ditch, v.1
Hop-Heads 55: I [...] left the house with the package ‘ditched’ in the lining of my coat.at ditch, v.1
Hop-Heads 110: The ‘smoker’ pays $1 a card and $1 for his ‘lay down’ and ‘lay out,’ use of the bunk and opium lamp and pipes.at lay-down, n.
Hop-Heads 76: He got a ‘rumble,’ too. Came near to being ‘ditched.’ But the ‘fall dough’ saved him.at fall dough (n.) under fall, n.
Hop-Heads 53: I was watching you give ‘the stranger’ the ‘fan’.at fan, v.1
Hop-Heads 20: Their stories running to the Hall of Justice and the ‘fixers’ that abound about the police courts.at fixer, n.1
Hop-Heads 32: ‘Howdy. Meet ---, He’s from ‘real folks.’’ ‘Real folks’ in the underworld stands for people who have been in prison or live by crime.at real folks (n.) under folks, n.
Hop-Heads 112: Two foon of hop retails in the San Francisco joints at four bits; five foon at $1.00.at foon, n.
Hop-Heads 40: He was hurrying, yet tarrying [...] with the shuffling, ambling gate of the typical ‘gutter hyp’.at gutter hype (n.) under gutter, n.
Hop-Heads 23: A lot of us didn’t really know what heroin—sniff H—was, until after it was too late.at H, n.
Hop-Heads 25: Whenever I get a ‘jolt’ in the can (county jail) they make me ‘kick out’ my habit in the ‘tanks’.at kick the habit (v.) under habit, n.
Hop-Heads 25: I went into the ‘big house’ (penitentiary) a bad boy. I came out a hard man.at hard, adj.
Hop-Heads 27: A ‘harness bull’ never scares me. But the ‘dicks’ are always ‘stooling’ around.at harness bull (n.) under harness, n.
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