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Night Side of N.Y. 55: Let’s follow the wake of that waddling Dutchman, who is turning off a portion of its [i.e. a cask] amber fluid.at amber fluid (n.) under amber, adj.
Night Side of N.Y. 55: Let’s follow the wake of that waddling Dutchman, who is turning off a portion of its [i.e. a cask] amber fluid. Night Side of N.Y. 54: The finest horses in the world are harnessed to the chariots of this ‘Amber God’.at amber, adj.
Night Side of N.Y. 24: On the outside of this sanguinary lantern, in a reflex of white letters, were the magic words, ‘Free And Easy’.at free-and-easy, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 11: She goes on bewitching and befoozling these English sports – dukes or bagmen.at bagman, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 80: I work now [...] at a Broadway saloon bang up on the square, and no private boxes.at bang, adv.
Night Side of N.Y. 39: A couple of well-known Broadway ‘faro-bankers’ follow the procession, for the body was one of their craft.at faro-banker (n.) under faro-bank, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 18: Individuals who patronize faro banks [...] clerks and blacklegs, Fulton market butchers and navy officers.at blackleg, n.1
Night Side of N.Y. 44: The queer, unclassified sailors belonging to ships in the port – be they Lascars, or what not – are ever expert with their ‘bleeders’.at bleeder, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 22: They make way, however, for several young bloods.at young blood (n.) under blood, n.2
Night Side of N.Y. 40: A midnight descent has just been made upon a ‘moll crib’ as he calls the ‘boarding house’ of the portly dame.at boarding house, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 63: If it [i.e. a banknote] proves to be ‘bogus,’ the hander of it is given into custody.at bogus, adj.
Night Side of N.Y. 58: At his side sat the cashier, very busy in converting greenbacks into ‘bones’.at bone, n.1
Night Side of N.Y. 79: I doubt if there are many aware that Hash is known to all the rounders as ‘boned turkey,’ ‘corduroy’ and ‘West Broadway’.at boned turkey, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 120: Little Jew boys, with glossy ringlets and beady black eyes, with teeth and noses like their fat mammas and avaricious-looking papas.at Jew boy, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 80: His nose is a ‘conk,’ his chest a ‘bread-basket,’ his mouth a ‘potato-trap’.at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
Night Side of N.Y. 83: His hat is [...] so shiny that it looks as if Bridget had mistaken it for a joint of a stovepipe, and ‘done it over’ with black-lead.at bridget, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 64: But these were only stuffed sleeves. His real arms were at work under the cape, and, with the light ‘bunches of fives’ at the end of them, did very considerable execution upon [...] the unsuspecting passengers.at bunch of fives, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 121: He had just rescued a ‘butt’ from a watery grave in the gutter. ‘Jeminy! don’t chaps about town smoke ’em awful short now’days!’.at butt, n.1
Night Side of N.Y. 18: The cigarette of the youth, the black cabbage-roll of the rough and the light Havana of the bank clerk.at cabbage leaf (n.) under cabbage, n.2
Night Side of N.Y. 26: The front of the bar, like the booth of a cheap johnny, stares at you with all its trinkets.at cheap john, n.1
Night Side of N.Y. 44: There is no more avaricious or money-grubbing man in the world than John Chinaman.at John Chinaman, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 41: Coachey is now probably availing himself of circumstances at the ‘establishment’ and pitching into the seven-dollar champagne.at coachy, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 79: I doubt if there are many aware that Hash is known to all the rounders as ‘boned turkey,’ ‘corduroy’ and ‘West Broadway’.at corduroy, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 62: There’s a club-house, just over the way, [...] we’ll go across there and crack a bottle of champagne.at crack a bottle (v.) under crack, v.2
Night Side of N.Y. 80: The boss took base advantage of his weakness, and sent the most fascinating crinoline we had on hand to take his orders.at crinoline, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 98: ‘How came you here?’ said the officer to the man. ‘Coming home —’ ‘And this crow picked you up?’ ‘Yes.’.at crow, n.2
Night Side of N.Y. 35: The knife is used with great freedom by the negro, who seldom shows any fight unless he has ‘cutlery’ about him. [Ibid.] 43: The ‘cutlery’ is always on hand, and not a night passes but bright blades reek with human blood.at cutlery, n.
Night Side of N.Y. 37: When any of the others come down upon him for their plunder, he declares himself ‘dead broke’.at dead broke (adj.) under dead, adv.
Night Side of N.Y. 11: Duced good wine, for this country.at deuced, adv.
Night Side of N.Y. 61: When they ‘spot’ a provincial person, or a newly-arrived foreigner, who looks as though it might pay to cultivate his acquaintance, one of the gang will ‘pipe’ or ‘dog’ him, to find out where he puts up.at dog, v.1
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