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Amer. Mag. Nov. 1: This land of our dads [...] is a dinger at nailing the scads [DA].at scad, n.2
Amer. Mag. Nov. 1: This land of our dads [...] is a dinger at nailing the scads [DA]. American Mag. 5 666: The black blot [...] gurgled out: ‘Kiss me, child.’ ‘I’ll be blistered if I do!’.at blistered, adj.
Amer. Mag. May 508: Thirteen casers every month [HDAS].at caser, n.1
Amer. Mag. LXV Apr. 599–604: Th’ colonel [...] calls to th’ faithful old retainer: ‘Rastus, ye black rascal, bring Colonel Hinnissy a glass an’ trot out th’ decanter iv Munson’s Cure f’r Epilepsy’.at Rastus, n.
Amer. Mag. 65 Apr. 599–604: An’ poor Sambo or Epaminondas Beecher Roosevelt, as th’ case may be, no longer sings th’ sintimintal plantation ballad iv ‘Give me me gin,’ but ‘Away away th’ bowl’.at sambo, n.1
Amer. Mag. May 40/2: Back of Chance’s war cries, ‘At-a-boy’, or ‘Now ye’re pitching’, may be hidden a whole command to his team .at attaboy!, excl.
Amer. Mag. 398/2: He is in extreme danger of being ‘beaned’, which, in baseball, means hit in the head [DA].at bean, v.
Amer. Mag. Apr. 786/1: Rubbing with volatile oils and steady massaging serve to press the muscle back to position, but the ‘horse’ returns at the next serious strain [DA].at charley horse, n.
Amer. Mag. June 200/1: Boner — a stupid play; a blunder in the science of the game .at boner, n.3
Amer. Mag. Jun. p.202/2 in AS XXVI:1 (1951) 31/1: Flat-footed – Unprepared, caught napping.at flat-footed, adj.4
Amer. Mag. 306/1: Do I like New York, [...] Why, honey, I would give a five dollar William for just one breath from that dear desert, [...] or a neigh from old Black Eye [DA].at william, n.1
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: When I became a newspaper executive [...] I naturally spent less time in Chinatown, but I still kept in touch with my news sources, sources that scored many a good ‘beat’ for my paper.at beat, n.5
Amer. Mag. 12/3: I knew the coppers were working a ‘bum rap,’ for Mac had been with me all night.at bum rap, n.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: Chef me up a few extra big ones to-night. I’ll take more to-night, for this will be about my last smoke. I’m going to quit.at chef, v.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: Thirty-six fun of opium at retail costs, at an average, three dollars. A fifty-cent tip to my ‘cook’ and a quarter for the privilege of the room in which I smoked made my habit cost me about four dollars a day.at cook, n.1
American Mag. 78 35/3: There wasn’t a ‘grifter’ [thief] in the place that any of us would take a drink with.at grifter, n.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: You got money, no go jail, you no quit. I heap sabe. Bimeby you see.at heap, adv.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: Bimeby maybe you go jail, no got fliend bling you hop, no got money givern policeman catchem hop, you quit.at hop, n.3
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: In the underworld there is a species of foresight termed ‘hop-head hunches.’ They are regarded with superstitious awe the country over.at hophead, adj.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: My rebuff sent me flying back to my layout and thiefdom, never to return. I ‘joined out’ with a mob and we prospered financially.at join out (v.) under join, v.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: When I became a regular smoker I bought a ‘layout’ — pipe, bowls, lamp, tray, yen hocks, everything — and indulged my habit in the ‘joint’ of a white smoker where I was a favored patron.at joint, n.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: When I became a regular smoker I bought a ‘layout’ — pipe, bowls, lamp, tray, yen hocks, everything — and indulged my habit in the ‘joint’ of a white smoker where I was a favored patron.at layout, n.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: Opium is like the salary loan shark — a friend to-day, smoothing difficulty and trouble with a free and easy hand. Tomorrow it becomes a master, exacting a toll a hundredfold more terrible than the ills it eased.at loan shark, n.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: Stopping only to lay in a supply of opium, we boarded a car and in half an hour were in the little furnished house I had rented, with the ‘long-stem’ (pipe) passing round and round the circle.at long-stem (n.) under long, adj.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: Five years ago I was editor and manager of a metropolitan daily newspaper. To-day I am a convict serving my second penitentiary sentence – a ‘two-time loser’ in the language of the underworld.at two-time loser, n.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: No one who has never lost the freedom of the ‘outside’ — that perpetual elusive dream of every convict – can realize what ‘doing time’ means.at outside, n.
Amer. Mag. June 31: We intended to leave the moment we finished smoking, but before we had inhaled a dozen pills a heavy knock, peremptory, insistent, sounded on the door.at pill, n.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: The entire house was surrounded. We were trapped [...] I turned to my pal. ‘It’s the pinch, old boy,’ I said.at pinch, n.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: You got money, no go jail, you no quit. I heap sabe. Bimeby you see.at savvy, v.
Amer. Mag. 77 June 31–5: I had taken scores of friends to opium dens on slumming parties, but had never touched a pipe nor been tempted to do so.at slum, v.3
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