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Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 21 July 6/8: If you heard a Negro saying that his gal is ‘always beatin’ her chops in off time’ you might not know that he was complaining of her penchant for gossip.at beat one’s gums, v.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 21 July 6/8: If you heard a Negro saying that his gal is ‘always beatin’ her chops in off time’ you might not know that he was complaining of her penchant for gossip. Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 21 July 6/8: If a Bowery bum declared that a cop hand [sic] handed him a bundle, would you know that he had dragged him before a judge.at bundle, n.1
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: ‘Burny’ is powdered cocaine which is inhaled by the addict who wants to go on a ‘sleigh ride’.at burny, n.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: Musicians have slang terms for every instrument [...] Cane – bassoon.at cane, n.1
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: Musicans have slang terms for every instrument [...] Lamp chop – violin.at lamp chop, n.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: A cokie is a ‘hophead’ who smokes ‘mud’ or ‘hop’ which is opium. And a gong is an opium pipe.at cokie, n.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: Musicans have slang terms for every instrument [...] Fish horn – soprano saxophone.at fish-horn (n.) under fish, n.1
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: A cokie is a ‘hophead’ who smokes ‘mud’ or ‘hop’ which is opium. And a gong is an opium pipe.at gong, n.2
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: A ‘hot ticket’ is a popular show on which the ticket speculators are thriving.at hot ticket, n.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: Musicans have slang terms for every instrument [...] Licorice stick – clarinet.at liquorice stick, n.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: Musicians have slang terms for every instrument [...] Meerschaum – saxophone.at meerschaum, n.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: Among dancers, especially in taxi dance halls, [...] wise girls are called ‘owls’.at owl, n.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: Musicans have slang terms for every instrument [...] Pretzel – French horn.at pretzel, n.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 12 Mar. 3/4: Rat stand – Railroad station.at rat, n.2
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: Musicans have slang terms for every instrument [...] Rock crusher – accordion.at rock crusher (n.) under rock, n.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: S.R.O. means ‘standing room only.’.at s.r.o., phr.1
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: Musicans have slang terms for every instrument [...] Shovel-banjo.at shovel, n.1
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 12 Mar. 3/4: Tipping grand – Running; walking fast; leaving quickly.at tip grand (v.) under tip, v.7
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: ‘Ice tong doctors’ sell ‘decks’ of drugs to ‘junkers’ when the ‘whiskers’ and ‘uncles’ (terms for federal agents) aren’t looking.at Uncle, n.1
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 31 July 6/8: ‘Ice tong doctors’ sell ‘decks’ of drugs to ‘junkers’ when the ‘whiskers’ and ‘uncles’ (terms for federal agents) aren’t looking.at whiskers, n.1
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 27 June 8/8: I knew a ‘snake charmer’ is an oboe, a ‘wood pile’ a xylophone, ‘phone booth’ a bass fiddle and ‘African harp’ a banjo.at African harp (n.) under African, adj.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 27 June 8/8: A ‘banjo’ is a frying pan.at banjo, n.1
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 27 June 8/8: A ‘clam bake’ [...] is a musical free-for-all in which each man toots at will but tries to maintain some semblance of harmony.at clambake, n.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 27 June 8/8: ‘On the cob,’ ‘corny’ and ‘Joe McGee’, all of which pertain to obsolete methods of interpreting popular music.at on the cob (adj.) under cob, n.2
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 27 June 8/8: The Bowery is still full of them [...] rynos, dynos and dingbats (old bums).at dingbat, n.7
Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail 10 May 8/8: It wasn’t any time at all until a hinkty big black man came around in his fancy clothes and began making sweet talk to Ham’s wife.at hincty, adj.
Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail 27 June 8/8: Any mattress, be it softest down or merely a mound of wadded newspaper, is a ‘hippins.’.at hippins, n.
Charleston (W.VA) Daily Mail 27 June 8/8: ‘On the cob,’ ‘corny’ and ‘Joe McGee’, all of which pertain to obsolete methods of interpreting popular music.at Joe McGee, n.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 27 June 8/8: A ‘long hair’ is a pit musician in legitimate theater.at longhair, n.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 27 June 8/8: ‘Peoria’ is the word for a mess of potatoes, first boiled, then fried.at Peoria, n.2
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