Green’s Dictionary of Slang
C.H. Haswell Reminiscences of City of N.Y. 376: There were other notorious locations [...] Maloney’s and ‘Bottle Alley,’ both of which were an ‘Alsatia’ or harbour for human derelicts, criminals of the lowest grade, and tramps.at Alsatia, n.
C.H. Haswell Reminiscences of City of N.Y. 379: The Democratic papers dwelt upon the act and termed the perpetrators ‘pipe-layers’; which term [...] is still in current use to denote concealed and indirect methods of political or other actions.at pipe-layer, n.
C.H. Haswell Reminiscences of City of N.Y. 331: He [...] was in the habit of referring to Governor Seward as his ‘small potato highness’.at small-potato, adj.
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