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Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 155: Now toots [...] don’t get up in the air like that. Take it easy.at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 155: Now toots [...] don’t get up in the air like that. Take it easy. Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 12: He’s a smart-aleck young punk who got honour grades in school and thinks he knows more than you do.at smart-aleck, adj.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 6: It was a gosh-awful hot day.at gosh-awful, adj.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 66: There are plenty of places where they’ll buy a girl all the drinks she wants. And they won’t be B-drinks.at b-drink, n.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 51: The heister came up on him, knocked off his hat with one hand and swung the billy with the other.at billy, n.4
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 119: ‘What’s a blow?’ ‘Short for blow-off. It’s a show for inside money, usually inside a freak show. I mean, say, you pay two bits to get into the freak show and the spieler takes you around the platforms and then starts an inside bally for another two bits or more to see a special show on the inside, down at one end of the top.’.at blow off, n.2
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 69: Bottoms up, Gardie.at bottoms up!, excl.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 191: The brakie cussed and let go. He ran alongside a few more steps and then the train was going too fast.at brakie, n.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 52: He broke a five.at break, v.4
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 191: He [...] put the horn to his lips and blew an awful Bronx cheer of a note.at Bronx cheer, n.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 61: I’m going to put a bug in his ear about investigating who lives in those apartments.at put a bug in someone’s ear (v.) under bug, n.4
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 114: They can find Reynolds easier than we can if the ’phone number is a bust.at bust, n.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 135: And taking the whole kaboodle of you to the circus.at whole caboodle (n.) under caboodle, n.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 65: ‘Can it,’ I said.at can it (v.) under can, v.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 14: And there’s the jig found carved with a shiv in an areaway.at carve, v.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 121: I jus’ cleaned up a crap game. Took th’ boys for two G’s.at clean up, v.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 178: Nobody gets the reward on Dutch; he’s cold meat.at cold meat, n.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 107: He was going to give us another few days to crack Kaufman.at crack, v.2
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 5: She started high school last year and got boy-crazy.at -crazy, sfx
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 122: Well, to-morrow we can try a couple more razzle-dazzles.at razzle-dazzle, n.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 180: Mountain dew, hell. That’s good Scotch.at mountain dew, n.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 159: Yes, but – I’d be wanted [...] There’d be dodgers out for me.at dodger, n.4
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 24: And if you left, and Madge didn’t like it, she’d blame me and we’d both be in the doghouse.at in the doghouse under doghouse, n.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 30: This Bassett didn’t look like a detective, but he wasn’t a dumb cluck at all.at dumb cluck (n.) under dumb, adj.1
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 30: There’s been plenty of hold-ups there under the el on Franklin.at el, n.1
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 142: She had on a black dress, a new one [...] She had on a little make-up, but not too much. Gosh, I thought, she’s really pretty when she’s fixed up.at fixed up, adj.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 92: He was still a little green about the gills.at green about the gills (adj.) under gills, n.1
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 189: I’ve never yet killed a bank robber with a twelve-ounce poker, nor slept with a gun-moll.at gun moll, n.
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 67: Not so fast [...] You can kill yourself guzzling that stuff fast when you’re not used to it.at guzzle, v.1
Fabulous Clipjoint (1949) 139: Thanks to hell and back, Bunny.at to hell and gone under hell, n.
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