1935 N. Algren ‘A Lumpen’ in Entrapment (2009) 33: Partner, I’ll have one of them little books.at partner, n.
1935 N. Algren ‘American Obituary’ in Entrapment (2009) 39: Frank Mears, no address, slugged for ninety cents.at slug, v.2
1935 N. Algren ‘A Lumpen’ in Entrapment (2009) 35: ‘Say, guy, you want some o’ me?’ And I doubled up both fists.at some, n.
1939 N. Algren ‘Lightless Room’ in Entrapment (2009) 44: Barrelhouse drunk and cussing out everyone walking past him.at barrelhouse, adj.
1939 N. Algren ‘Lightless Room’ in Entrapment (2009) 44: He yelled over to me I was just one more flannel-mouth Polack.at flannel-mouthed, adj.
1939 N. Algren ‘Lightless Room’ in Entrapment (2009) 45: Then [he’d] call O’Connor a underfed shoneen.at shoneen, n.
a.1949 N. Algren Little Lester’ in Entrapment (2009) 94: A veteran conaroo who called himself Bonarue Katz.at bonaroo, adj.
a.1949 N. Algren ‘Little Lester’ in Entrapment (2009) 95: Say — you know what burned my hump? [...] What burned me was after I shot him, then he says, ‘Don’t shoot me.’ After I done it.at burn one’s hump (v.) under burn, v.
a.1949 N. Algren Little Lester’ in Entrapment (2009) 97: They’re fixin’ a loose chopper so’s I won’t have to set in the chair downstairs with a toothache.at choppers, n.
a.1949 N. Algren Little Lester’ in Entrapment (2009) 99: Wait till he feels [...] his leg gettin’ bound to the voltage clamp. He’ll konk out.at conk (out), v.
a.1949 N. Algren Little Lester’ in Entrapment (2009) 94: Frankie [...] worked down the tier slowly, taking the jibes of the deadlocked without reply.at deadlock, n.
a.1949 N. Algren ‘Paper Daisies’ in Entrapment (2009) 104: ‘Come down I hammer your board,’the carpenter invited her with a leer [...] ‘You try carpenter’s hammer! You try, you like! Try for size! Come quick!’.at hammer, v.1
a.1949 N. Algren ‘Paper Daisies’ in Entrapment (2009) 104: ‘Come down I hammer your board,’the carpenter invited her with a leer [...] ‘You try carpenter’s hammer! You try, you like! Try for size! Come quick!’.at hammer, n.1
a.1949 N. Algren Little Lester’ in Entrapment (2009) 100: He wanted to be sick, and couldn’t. All he could do was heave.at heave, v.
a.1949 N. Algren Little Lester’ in Entrapment (2009) 93: Upstairs, on the topmost tier [...] hustlers over the hump for redemption.at over the hump under hump, n.1
a.1949 N. Algren Little Lester’ in Entrapment (2009) 94: Nothing more than a punk who’d hypped a piece of tin [i.e. an iron] in a neighborhood department store.at hype, v.1
a.1949 N. Algren Little Lester’ in Entrapment (2009) 94: Look, you two marks — put down that Salvation Army deal ’n do like me — all I do is play solitaire ’n smoke sigerettes now — How’d you marks like a deal like that, marks?at mark, n.1
a.1949 N. Algren ‘Little Lester’ in Entrapment (2009) 94: There wasn’t much to doing Susie-Q. Just to haul the Susie-Q wagon, with its load of buckets and mops, and wash down the fourth-floor tier.at Susie-Q, n.
a.1949 N. Algren Little Lester’ in Entrapment (2009) 95: Hovering behind the soft-clothesman, a newspaper man [...] edged to the bars and gave Lester a cigarette.at soft clothes (adj.) under soft, adj.
c.1951 N. Algren ‘Watch Out for Daddy’ in Entrapment (2009) 149: I’m in and out of jail like a fiddler’s elbow.at in and out like a fiddler’s elbow, phr.
c.1951 N. Algren ‘Watch Out for Daddy’ in Entrapment (2009) 141: Lucille, a teen-age lush who [...] Enright uses as a B-broad because the chick drinks hard stuff along with the marks.at B-girl, n.
c.1951 N. Algren ‘Watch Out for Daddy’ in Entrapment (2009) 118: The minute I got my blouse off that night he banged me again [...] it brought me up deathly sick over the wash basin.at bang, v.1
c.1951 N. Algren ‘Watch Out for Daddy’ in Entrapment (2009) 126: When he got a really legit beef on me [...] he just laughs.at beef, n.2
c.1951 N. Algren ‘Watch Out for Daddy’ in Entrapment (2009) 118: Lucky for you that needle didn’t snap when you blew the shot.at blow a/one’s shot (v.) under blow, v.2
c.1951 N. Algren ‘Watch Out for Daddy’ in Entrapment (2009) 125: I scarcely could blame him for feeling brought down.at brought down, adj.
c.1951 N. Algren ‘Watch Out for Daddy’ in Entrapment (2009) 134: Spook-docs and croakers, bug docs and such, meatballs and matrons, nurses and all.at bug doctor (n.) under bug, n.4
c.1951 N. Algren ‘Watch Out for Daddy’ in Entrapment (2009) 115: I got a job car-hopping.at carhop, v.
c.1951 N. Algren ‘Watch Out for Daddy’ in Entrapment (2009) 117: Daddy went into a simply terrible huff [...] How that child did huff and puff.at child, n.