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S.F. Chron. 31 Aug. 3/2: When jack comes ashore he is marked as fair game by all the thieves, lager beer slingers, et id genus omne in the city.at beer-slinger (n.) under beer, n.
S.F. Chron. 31 Aug. 3/2: When jack comes ashore he is marked as fair game by all the thieves, lager beer slingers, et id genus omne in the city. S.F. Chron. 21 Apr. 3/3: He had been foully dealt with by some of the professional shanghaiers and stranglers that infest the dens along the city [water] front.at shanghai, n.1
S.F. Chron. 26 Nov. 1/4: [They] entered into a dispute, which was ended by Shaffer striking King on the nose and the reply of King straight from the shoulder.at straight from the shoulder, adv.
S.F. Chronicle Aug. n.p.: These clusters of canal-boats are substantially floating villages. The ‘canaler’s’ family is seen on deck [DA].at canaller, n.
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: Youse see a banker — de old man — stakes me wid a flat joint one day [...] Dead easy graft, but he sends a bull con along to guard his dough.at bull, adj.1
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: I gives his buttons a warm spill.at buttons, n.
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: Den we turns a play at dice an’ wins a jasper for half a century.at half-century (n.) under century, n.
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: A collar pinches me.at collar, n.
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: He would have ducked, too, if a detective hadn’t been dere.at duck, v.1
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: Youse see a banker — de old man — stakes me wid a flat joint one day [...] an’ I goes to Petaluma to cop a few bones. Dead easy graft, but he sends a bull con along to guard his dough.at flat joint (n.) under flat, adj.3
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: An unharnessed flatty steps up and raps to me.at unharnessed (n.) under harness, n.
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: Before I can open my face he tunes up his pipes an’ hands me a knock. It makes me so hot.at knock, n.1
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: De lampers stood ’round till dey got wise to de joint, an’ dey didn’t do a t’ing but queer me marks.at lamper, n.
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: De lampers stood ’round till dey got wise to de joint, an’ dey didn’t do a t’ing but queer me marks.at mark, n.1
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: De lampers stood ’round till dey got wise to de joint, an’ dey didn’t do a t’ing but queer me marks.at queer, v.
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: An unharnessed flatty steps up and raps to me.at rap, v.1
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: He [i.e. a con-man’s victim] beefs an’ de bull con tries make a stall. It didn’t go, so I ribbed de rummy up to blow.at rib (someone) up (v.) under rib, v.
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: He [i.e. a con-man’s victim] beefs an’ de bull con tries make a stall. It didn’t go, so I ribbed de rummy up to blow.at rummy, n.2
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: I ribbed de rummy up to blow, an’ he screwed his nut.at screw one’s nut (v.) under screw, v.
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: I gives his buttons a warm spill.at spill, n.1
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: He [i.e. a con-man’s victim] beefs an’ de bull con tries make a stall.at stall, n.1
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: Before I can open my face he tunes up his pipes an’ hands me a knock. It makes me so hot.at tune one’s pipes (v.) under tune, v.
S.F. Chron. 6 June 11/5: Den we turns a play at dice an’ wins a jasper for half a century.at win, v.
S.F. Chron. 25 oct. 6/1: ‘Garcon, some more red paint, please.’ Or: ‘I presume you have some more of this foot-juice, waiter’. Or again [...] ‘Another quarter of Dago red’. And so they make merry over the cheap red wine.at foot juice (n.) under foot, n.
S.F. Chron. 25 oct. 6/1: ‘Garcon, some more red paint, please.’ Or: ‘I presume you have some more of this foot-juice, waiter’. Or again [...] ‘Another quarter of Dago red’. And so they make merry lver the cheap red wine.at red paint (n.) under red, adj.
S.F. Chronicle 6 Mar. 3: The ‘cat’ in Yegg parlance is a man shrewd enough to find ‘easy things’ where robbery may be safely committed. It is his duty to plan and maybe to stand on guard for a ‘rumble’.at cat, n.1
S.F. Chronicle 6 Mar. 3: At the next stopping place the ‘gay cat’ is put to work. He builds the shack or finds a deserted house where the gang may stop. He then visits the nearest town and buys canned goods and provisions. In short, he is the man-of-all-work and generally possesses an open countenance calculated to deceive.at gaycat, n.
S.F. Chronicle 6 Mar. 3: In the hunt for Rudolph, Pinkerton men rode with tramps on brake beams, on the ends of blind baggage cars, in freight cars, ‘on the hog’ — that is to say, on hog and livestock trains — on cow-catchers, and in the crevices of lumber cars.at on the hog (train) under hog, n.
S.F. Chronicle 6 Mar. 3: If the job is successful they ‘light up,’ or jump a train and get away.at light up, v.2
S.F. Chronicle 6 Mar. 3: For ‘Prussians,’ or beggar boys, Rudolph was known to have an aversion.at prushun, n.
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