1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 179: He loved his stepmother. ‘Tootie was aces.’.at aces, adj.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 184: You’re all air [...] just a crummy, deadbeat talker.at air, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 12: Dr Wolff, an alrightnik with soft brown eyes and an appetite for excellence.at allrightnik, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 185: The rest of us – ‘negos,’ carpers, corner-cutters, and wise-apples – bucked the system and had some fun.at wise apple (n.) under apple, n.1
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 6: After Yale [...] my father batted around the country, living a high life.at bat, v.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 138: His wife – who wore lots of lipstick and had big ones – came around to ask for money.at big one, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 72: He [...] emptied a clip of big medicine into four dark and deserted corners of the cellar.at big medicine (n.) under big, adj.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 98: Rosemary told me to clean my room, and I stuck up my middle finger, shot her the bird.at shoot a/the bird (v.) under bird, n.2
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 242: ‘He was a blue-sky artist,’ Mother says of Father.at blue sky, v.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 49: He hadn’t pocketed the savings, wasn’t venal, was just a bootlicker.at bootlicker, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 8: The successful bunco artist does his game, and disappears himself.at bunco artist (n.) under bunco, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 225: Let’s get some champers and fish-eggs up here.at champers, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 206: ‘We’ kissed off the pushers, strivers, tweedbags [...] Christers, doers.at Christer, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 180: I was invited to some of these [dances]; most I crashed.at crash, v.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 233: He stayed ten days, put everything on the cuff, even his amphetamines.at on the cuff under cuff, n.2
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 80: What you have here is a man stiffed you. You guys are in business, haven’t you ever met a deadbeat?at deadbeat, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 184: You’re all air [...] just a crummy, deadbeat talker.at deadbeat, adj.
1979 (con. 1964) G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 235: Only a couple of friends took gas, were deep-sixed from Princeton prematurely and against their wishes.at deep six, v.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 183: It was as dark as Dick’s hatband in there.at Dick’s hatband, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 79: Duke had arranged a party. ‘We had a wingding,’ Mother says, ‘and I felt emotional.’.at wing-ding, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 80: He wouldn’t stop making passes, and finally I told your father, who tossed him out on his ear.at on one’s ear under ear, n.1
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 117: The cards were kept in a cigar box with an eight-page Tijuana bible that spelled tit tut.at eight-pager (n.) under eight, adj.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 15: Dr. Wolff is said to have left the staff of St. Francis because a Jew couldn’t get a fair shake from the Catholics.at fair shake, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 138: I sleep in a trailer, his wife farts through silk.at fart through silk (v.) under fart, v.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 117: The cards were kept in a cigar box with [...] a thing whose use we couldn’t guess at, which I knew the following year was a French tickler.at French tickler (n.) under French, adj.
1979 (con. 1964) G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 235: Only a couple of friends took gas, were deep-sixed from Princeton prematurely and against their wishes.at take gas (v.) under gas, n.1
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 42: He was a gonif, a schnorrer. He was just a bum.at gonnof, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 15: Neither were the Jews of my grandmother’s background very tolerant of greenhorns [...] Jews from Eastern Europe.at greenhorn, n.
1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 128: A drunk [...] called Duke a ‘Hebe sonofabitch.’.at hebe, adj.