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Snare of the Road 20: My rising suspicion that all was not above board with the intentions of Carolina Bob.at above board, adj.
Snare of the Road 20: My rising suspicion that all was not above board with the intentions of Carolina Bob. Snare of the Road 101: Blimey, fellow, this ain’t nothing to what we expects right after Christmas.at blimey!, excl.
Snare of the Road 12: One of the profesh? A reglar blown-in-the-glass stiff?at blowed-in-the-glass (stiff), n.
Snare of the Road 39: It required quite an effort on my part to restrain myself from harkening to the dictates of temptation which urged me to [...] bodly [sic] brace the cooks for a lunch.at brace, v.
Snare of the Road 85: I was getting ready to brace the ex-bo who makes his kippings here for a chance to tell of the doings of the bums, when you moosed in and now are trying to spoil the graft.at brace, v.
Snare of the Road 95: Not caring to buck the inclement elements, I hunted up a ‘doss house’.at buck, v.2
Snare of the Road 125: With no other avenue left open, unless he desired to descend to the level of a common stew bum, one who warmed up handouts in castaway tin cans, he took a fling at the straight but narrow path.at stew bum, n.
Snare of the Road 11: The job I made of box car bumming proved so eventless.at bumming, n.
Snare of the Road 98: They won’t be able to take care of all of us.at take care of, v.
Snare of the Road 32: ‘Catters’ [...] ride the platforms of the express and baggage cars, the tenders of engines, and similar places.at catter, n.2
Snare of the Road 130: ‘How much will it cost to settle this affair out of court [...]?’ asked Mr. Davis, addressing the chief of police. ‘Not a red cent, sir!’.at red cent, n.
Snare of the Road 66: ‘Chow’ in the parlance of the bluejackets stands for grub, food and victuals in general.at chow, n.1
Snare of the Road 83: The ‘non-comish’ who’s putting us through the stunts is one of the ship mates I dosed with salty Java.at non-com, n.
Snare of the Road 95: ‘Conchy’ is the hobo argot for Connecticut.at Conchy, n.
Snare of the Road 74: De white folks Ah just done tole yu about, hab gwine ’most daffy in der heads.at daffy, adj.
Snare of the Road 32: ‘Danglers’ [...] suspend themselves from the rods upholding the coach bodies [...] or attach themselves to other hazardous holds beneath the passenger equipment.at dangler, n.
Snare of the Road 24: The going down in defeat of a jocker at the hands of his road kid is considered in hobodom a conclusive proof that the kid has outlived his usefulness as a producer of alms.at -dom, sfx
Snare of the Road 85: What’s eating you, Texas Jerry?at eat, v.
Snare of the Road 120: ‘Here comes my fall-guy,’ I mused.at fall guy, n.
Snare of the Road 119: I noted that the car was loaded with ‘Pittsburgh Feathers’ [...] I ran to the side of the car, swung aboard and crawled into the vacant space which I barricaded with chunks of the rough coke.at Pittsburgh feathers, n.
Snare of the Road 47: I had to thank a lanky cowboy for getting fired off the cars at Rexford.at fire, v.2
Snare of the Road 84: Mr Davis [...] asked that he direct other floaters as he had been directed by Arkansas Jim.at floater, n.1
Snare of the Road 101: I had vainly tried to scare up the price of a Bowery flop.at flop, n.5
Snare of the Road 31: Ramblers are further subdivided into two classes: ‘Foxes’ are termed those who ride within the coaches by citing hat checks, by occupying vacant berths, and by resorting to other tricks of cunning.at fox, n.1
Snare of the Road 17: Others who previously had acted decidedly homesick took French leave when our last penny had been used.at French leave, n.
Snare of the Road 85: I was getting ready to brace the ex-bo who makes his kippings here for a chance to tell of the doings of the bums, when you moosed in and now are trying to spoil the graft.at graft, n.1
Snare of the Road 87: Young Davis found most of his comrades at the ‘hangout’.at hang-out, n.1
Snare of the Road 16: In the intervals between train hopping [...] and hobo chasing, we played mischievous tricks.at hop, v.1
Snare of the Road 94: Hobnobbing with the millionaires at Palm Beach and other red hot places.at red-hot, adj.
Snare of the Road 100: I kipped at one of the numerous ‘seven-cent’ dumps that lined the Bowery.at kip, v.
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