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Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 29 Nov. 3/5: Three boys [...] found in a low grog mill [were] insensible from the efects of whisky.at grog mill (n.) under grog, n.1
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 29 Nov. 3/5: Three boys [...] found in a low grog mill [were] insensible from the efects of whisky. Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 11 Sept. 3/3: Duing part of his nefarious career he has the ‘pal’ of Eph. Pharo, a celebreated ‘hotel sneak’.at hotel sneak (n.) under hotel, n.
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 5 June 8/1: The lines which the remarkable ‘author-doctor’ managed to spout off during the course of two hours.at spout off (v.) under spout, v.1
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 9 Sept. 7/5: ‘Dat’s rite,’ cried Bat when the reporter’s laughter had ceased [...] ‘Dat’s rite. Trow me down. I kin stand it’.at throw (someone) down (v.) under throw down, v.
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 9 Sept. 7/6: ‘Well, sa-ay, I wuz onter him frum der fist rattle out’n the box’.at first crack out of the box (adv.) under first, adj.
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 9 Sept. 7/6: ‘I gin der ole woman der grand laf [...] but she wuz dead game’.at give someone the laugh (v.) under laugh, n.
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 9 Sept. 7/5: ‘[W]here did you get that outlandish rig?’.at rig, n.3
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 9 Sept. 7/6: [of a defaulting boarder] ‘[She] never let on dat he’d giv’ her der stan’-up’.at stand-up, n.
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 26 June 31/8: With any of the Latin races ‘it’s quite another pair of sleeves,’ as they say in France.at another pair of sleeves under sleeve, n.
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 18 June 11/2: I gathered a bunch of notes [...] and spout them off.at spout off (v.) under spout, v.1
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 9 Mar. 10/5: Schreck has a weakness for calling every [one[ ‘Bonehead’ and ‘Fathead’ and the fellows get back by calling him ‘Schreckstein’.at bonehead, n.1
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 26 July 9/4: I did not see one man showing any evidence of having dallied with the booze bug [...] there was not a drunken soldier visible.at booze bug (n.) under booze, n.
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 13 Sept. 34/3: Didn’t you bring some stickum to mend that busted china?at stickum, n.
Phila. Inquirer 22 May part II 3/5–6: I don’t want any excuses. Next time this happens you hit the bricks for yours – that’s the answer.at hit the bricks (v.) under bricks, n.
Phila. Inquirer 22 May part II 3/5–6: ‘Cush’ and ‘kick’ are concomitants. No one in these wise days of the twentieth century ever has money in his pocket. Instead, he has ‘cush’ in his ‘kick,’ or if he be strapped, he has no ‘cush’ in his ‘kick’.at strapped (for cash), adj.
Phila. Inquirer 22 May Pt II 3/5–6: ‘Frisk’ is a new word which is attaining wide popularity in certain circles. It means ‘to go through one.’ Thus, a gentleman who has been made the victim of personal robbery has been ‘frisked.’ A ‘frisker’ is in plain language a thief, though the term is becoming elastic and may mean a form of skylarking.at frisker, n.
Phila. Inquirer 22 May Pt II 3/5–6: If a confidence gentleman is restrained from his industry by the arrival of the ‘bulls,’ or policemen, his play has been crabbed by the interfering gendarme.at gendarme, n.
Phila. Inquirer 22 May Pt. II 3/5–6: If a ‘gun’ or thief is pursued by the fly cops he no longer ‘takes it on the run,’ as he did last year; he ‘tin cans.’.at take it on the run (v.) under take it, v.
Phila. Inquirer 22 May part II 3/5–6: A ‘rave’ is any form of conversational endeavor. The office boy listens to a ‘rave’ by the boss, the humble manager harks to a star’s ‘rave,’ and less mortals are also permitted to indulge in the ‘rave’.at rave, n.
Phila. Inquirer 22 May Pt II 3/5–6: A ‘rave’ is any form of conversational endeavor [...] When the ‘rave’ is extended it becomes a ‘talk fest.’.at talkfest (n.) under talk, n.
Phila. Inquirer 22 May Pt. II 3/5–6: The present place of honor must without question be given to the phrase, ‘That’s the answer.’ Here is an unusable expression, the delivery of which stamps the speaker as a wise gazaboo of the first water.at wise, adj.
Phila. Inquirer 15 Apr. in Unforgettable Season (1981) 40: Mathewson had bunked those Phillies.at bunk, v.3
Phila. Inquirer 2 Oct. in Unforgettable Season (1981) 274: Another crimp was put in the pennant aspirations of the tribe of McGraw.at put a crimp in(to) (v.) under crimp, n.1
Phila. Inquirer 15 Apr. in Unforgettable Season (1981) 40: In a nutshell, the Phillies could not connect with Mathewson.at Philly, n.
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 2 Apr. 60/2: ‘For sure [...] ’tis all along of his flirtatious ways the trouble has come about’.at for sure!, excl.
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) Sun. Morn. 27 June 6/8: [advert] For brass tact fact address Dept. 65.at brass tacks, n.
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 1 July 46/1: Connie Mack [...] knows he will have to give Boston his best shots to win the series.at one’s best shot (n.) under shot, n.1
Phila. Inquirer 16 June n.p.: A ‘babe’ is any beautiful dumb young lady introduced to the campus.at babe, n.
Phila. Inquirer 16 June n.p.: ‘To “wolf” or to “chisel” is to poach on what one should consider sacred to one’s neighbor,’ says the writer. ‘Usually it refers to the depradations committed by a stag at a prom at the expense of a man who is entertaining a young lady. To set with the purpose of doing some “high-class wolfing” is a plan with malice aforethought to lure some alluring female from the protection of her official escort.’.at chisel, v.
Phila. Inquirer 16 June n.p.: An essential part of the ‘toughie’s’ vocabulary is the verb ‘to cream.’ This verb has synonyms which make its meaning plain: To ‘knock cold,’ to ‘cool,’ to ‘beat up on’ and to ‘take.’ It may be used in connection with anything which the speaker dislikes and is often applied to certain examinations. A thing or a person which has been ‘creamed’ has been successfully treated in a violent manner.at cool, v.3
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