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Chicago Times in Gangs of Chicago (1940) 91: Nearly a hundred murders since 1865 and not a single neck stretched!at stretch someone’s neck (v.) under stretch, v.
Chicago Times in Gangs of Chicago (1940) 91: Nearly a hundred murders since 1865 and not a single neck stretched! Chicago Life 27 Apr. in Gangs of Chicago (1940) 133: The circus house, 70 Wells Street, is drawing crowded houses and performances take place any hour of the day and night.at circus house (n.) under circus, n.
(con. 1890s) Gangs of Chicago (2002) 122: Kitty Adams, a white strong-arm woman who for almost a dozen years was known as the Terror of State Street.at strong-arm woman (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 100: Mollie Holbrook [...] opened an assignation house, where she fleeced a rich Western cattle man out of $25,000 with the badger game.at badger game (n.) under badger, n.1
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 340: Hundred-dollar bills were leaves, and twenty-five dollars was scornfully called two bits.at two bits, n.
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 35: Resolutions adopted by this committee pledged its members to [...] wage unrelenting warfare upon sharpers and blacklegs.at blackleg, n.1
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 142: He ran saloons and gambling houses, protected bunko steerers and confidence men and brace games of all kinds.at bunco steerer (n.) under bunco, n.
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 147: There he [...] dispersed the tribute paid by other gamblers and the gangs of confidence and bunko men.at bunco man (n.) under bunco, n.
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 73: In 1860, when he was about twenty-seven years old, he became a roper and capper for a small faro bank.at capper, n.1
(ref. to 1860) Gangs of Chicago 96: In the middle of 1860 it was estimated by the [Chicago] Tribune that two thousand ‘chippies’ plied their unholy trade in the retail business district alone.at chippie, n.1
(con. 1880s) Gangs of Chicago (2002) 119: She boasted also that no man could imagine an act of perversion or degeneracy which she and her strumpets would not perform — and proved it at the ‘circus nights’ which were held two or three times a month.at circus, n.
(con. 1890s) Gangs of Chicago (2002) 130: A ‘circus house’ run by Kitty Plant [...] which was notorious for exhibitions in which women and animals participated.at circus house (n.) under circus, n.
(con. 1888–1910) Gangs of Chicago (2002) 125: Detective Clifton Wooldridge, known to the underworld as ‘that damned little fly-cop.’.at fly cop, n.
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 112: Hell’s Half-Acre, in which every building was occupied by a groggery, a bordello, a concert saloon, a low gambling den, an assignation house, or streetwalkers’ cribs.at crib, n.1
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 51: A monthly prize-fight between two bruisers who fought [...] for a purse of two dollars and a night with one of Mother Herrick’s cyprians.at Cyprian, n.
(ref. to 1857) Gangs of Chicago (2002) 51: The little nest of gamblers dominated by the patrician John Sears had become, in 1857, a large and discordant colony of deadfalls and skinning joints.at dead fall (n.) under dead, adj.
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 211: Another [hotel] was patronized only by dope addicts, and cocaine and morphine were sold openly over the desk.at dope addict (n.) under dope, n.1
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 324: Torrio and his gangsters ‘fronted’ for them — that is, assumed ownership and accepted responsibility in the event of trouble.at front for (v.) under front, v.2
(con. late 19C) Gangs of Chicago (2002) 108: The Alhambra was a den of the type which the slang of the times called a ‘goosing slum’ — a small, low-ceilinged room with smelly sawdust on the floor, bad liquor behind the bar, and a few tables at which streetwalkers of the lowest class waited gloomily for someone to buy a drink or make an indecent proposal.at goosing slum, n.
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 53: Freddy Webster’s place, a groggery and twenty-five cent bagnio, was a dump of exceptional viciousness.at groggery, n.
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 169: Sime Tuckhorn, who ran one of the toughest places on Whisky Row, the hangout of thieves and hoodlums of the lowest type.at hang-out, n.1
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 54: Long John Wentworth — three hundred pounds on the hoof and six feet and seven inches in his socks.at on the hoof under hoof, n.
(ref. to 1900s) Gangs of Chicago (2002) 217: The ‘kick-in‘ [...] With half a dozen gangsters in his wagon, Merry would drive up to a previously selected shop or store. One man remained on the wagon [...] and two stood guard with revolvers on the sidewalk, threatening pedestrians and watching for the police, while Merry kicked in the door [...] and carried out the loot.at kick-in, n.1
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 352: His real name was Wajciechowski, a jawbreaker which was changed to Weiss soon after his family arrived in the United States.at jawbreaker, n.
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 340: Hundred-dollar bills were leaves, and twenty-five dollars was scornfully called two bits.at leaf, n.
(con. 1880s–90s) Gangs of Chicago (2002) 121: Then they [i.e. fledgling prostitutes] were broken in to what in red-light circles was known as ‘the life.’.at life, n.
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 167: Mushmouth Johnson — his real name was John V. — came to Chicago from St. Louis in the middle 1870s.at mushmouth (n.) under mush, n.1
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 128: Flossie Moore and Emma Ford, both of whom were [...] gifted stick-up artists and panel-workers.at panel thief (n.) under panel, n.1
Gangs of Chicago (2002) 124: Panel-houses, actually more robbing dens than bordellos, and so-called because of sliding panels in walls and interior doors, through which a thief could enter or reach into a room and plunder a man’s clothing while he was being entertained by a prostitute.at panel crib (n.) under panel, n.1
(ref. to 1860s) Gangs of Chicago (2002) 97: Lou Harper’s elegantly furnished establishment [...] was the city’s first parlor-house, a type of bagnio which charged high prices and provided any sort of erotic amusement a customer might desire.at parlor house (n.) under parlor, n.
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