1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 155: You’re a tinhorn and ain’t got a bag to bet. How many stamps was it you stole, a dollar’s worth or a dime’s worth? Sure you won’t bet a bag.at bag, n.1
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 216: A skinner chides a mule: ‘Giddap, crow bait, ’fore I fan your tail wi’ this leather’.at crow-bait, n.
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 267: An insane asylum [...] bathouse.at bat house (n.) under bat, n.5
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 41: He tries to unlimber his rod, but I beat ’im to the wheel.at beat to the gun (v.) under beat, v.
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 40: I go in a dump an’ put the B on the boss.at put the bee on (v.) under bee, n.1
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 118: We’ll go hungry anyway, you belly-robbin’ bastard.at belly-robbing (adj.) under belly, n.
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 257: The Old Man takes his belt of gin at the end of the day.at belt, n.
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 82: Hot dam! [...] Git dis law out de way. Den us kin snatch ouah women an’ blow ouah snow.at blow, v.1
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 42: ‘What did they give you – the works, didn’t they?’ [...] ‘Yeah. The papers got that much straight. Yeah. Both barrels. The book.’.at book, n.
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 228: These screws are all so chipper they would break out guns and make them crack after a running vic for the fun of it.at break out, v.
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 115: Holy preachers come out every night [...] ’Till they get all your coin on the drum; / Then they tell you when you’re on the bum: [...] You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.at on a/the bum under bum, n.3
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 41: He gives me one look an’ hauls his caboose back up to the stem.at caboose, n.
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 40: He’s an old gink with funny cheaters an’ a Dinwiddie.at cheaters, n.2
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 40: I nearly go to the mat with one cherry-picker. He cracks som’pin about bums I don’t like.at cherry-picker, n.1
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 228: These screws are all so chipper they would break out guns and make them crack after a running vic for the fun of it.at chipper, adj.
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 41: The sporty clown don’t like this an’ starts usin’ names I don’t like a damn bit.at clown, n.
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 261: But if only the nights would go easier [...] Some of them are longer than they were when you were in your coop.at coop, n.1
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 228: These screws are all so chipper they would break out guns and make them crack after a running vic for the fun of it.at crack, v.1
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 40: Well, me an’ him an’ a gunsel dangles into this burgh.at dangle, v.
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 21: He was some kind of a one-barreled gambler before he was made dep.at dep, n.
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 109: Somewhere in Mexican Tom’s family, assuredly, was a don of old Castile.at don, n.
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 248: I wish I had something to dope me to sleep ’til breakfast.at dope, v.1
1929 A.J. Barr Let Tomorrow Come 185: That puttin’ him in de dozen, Singin’ Man! Sing him out some mo’. Sing him some mo’ dem pop-outs. He jus’ a lowdown lahk ou an’ me but he think he somebody.at play the dozen(s) (v.) under dozens, n.