1877 Chicago Street Gazette 20 Oct. n.p.: Little Kittie, of Stiles, says she has been on a big drunk. You had better look out, Kit, or the bug juice will get the best of you.at bug juice (n.) under bug, n.4
1877 Chicago Street Gazette 1/1: William, you want to be more prompt, and not be bulldozing around other places.at bulldose, v.
1877 Chicago Street Gazette 22 Sept. n.p.: There is a dive on North LaSalle Street, called a wine hall, kept by an old procuress, and most any night you can find a congregation of boys, prostitutes, old cats, thieves and vags.at cat, n.1
1877 Chicago Street Gazette 20 Oct. 1/4: [headline] Prospect of a Prize Fight Between Two Noted Coon Sluggers.at coon, adj.
1877 Chicago Street Gazette 22 Sept. n.p.: There is a dive on North LaSalle Street, called a wine hall, kept by an old procuress.at dive, n.2
1877 Chicago Street Gazette 1/5: Did you soak your feet in the old guy’s barrel of lightning.at lightning, n.
1877 Chicago Street Gazette 1/5: The girls all say you would make a beautiful pimp for some landlady of a nigger dive.at nigger, adj.
1877 Chicago Street Gazette 20 Oct. n.p.: And not be trying to put in so much style around the St Mark’s Hotel, for very near all of the boys are on to you; and when you register, please leave the word ‘New York’ out, for we know it’s from the Bridewell you are.at onto, adj.
1877 Chicago Street Gazette 1/5: That Sheeney, Greenewall, it seems will never tumble, but is getting from bad to worse. Why can’t you drop? Don’t you see the ice bird is making laughing stock of you?at sheeny, n.
1877 Chicago Street Gazette 20 Oct. 1/4: [headline] Prospect of a Prize Fight Between Two Noted Coon Sluggers.at slugger, n.
1877 Chicago Street Gazette 20 Oct. 1/2: May Willard, why don’t you take a tumble to yourself and not be trying to put on so much style around the St. Marks Hotel.at take a tumble (v.) under tumble, n.
1877 Chicago Street Gazette 1/5: Poor Bill McCarthy came very near going crazy the other night because Flora Smith was going to let one of Bremond’s niggers get his work in.at get one’s work in (v.) under work, n.
1887 Chicago Street Gazette 13 Oct. Little drunken May Willard, the pocket-book snatcher and lager-beer guzzler, went through a granger on the West Side lately.at go through, v.