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Brooklyn Eagle 20 Nov. n.p.: In a game of ‘brag’ this old rogue could, in eight times out of ten, secure two bullets and a bragger.at bullet, n.2
Brooklyn Eagle 20 Nov. n.p.: In a game of ‘brag’ this old rogue could, in eight times out of ten, secure two bullets and a bragger. Brooklyn Eagle 20 Nov. n.p.: An old broken down gambler, formerly of Cincinnati, known as Zeolus Graves, once in the policy business, but more recently as a receiver of stolen goods, and thieve’s [sic] ‘Peter.’.at peter, n.3
Brooklyn Eagle 20 Nov. n.p.: An old broken down gambler, formerly of Cincinnati, known as Zeolus Graves, once in the policy business, but more recently as a receiver of stolen goods.at policy, n.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle 27 Sept. 2: One-Eyed Thompson was brought on the stand, and notwithstanding his evidence [...] the jury seemed to doubt the veracity of the witness, for they immediately acquitted Drury without leaving the box! A compliment to Thompson, certainly, ‘over the left.’.at over the left (shoulder)!, excl.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 24 Aug. 4/1: Tumble ober mill-dam, / Come down kersplash.at kersplash! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 30 Mar. 2/2: Mercantile Library Association [...] Stormy and tempestuous session — The ‘sore-heads’ of last year still smarting.at sorehead, n.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 21 Aug. 3/2: Gambling — Theodore Ross, a venturesome darkey, opened a little game known as ‘sweat’.at sweat, n.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 21 Aug. 3/2: The game was interrupted by Sergeant Leach who carried off the ‘sweat’ board, the dice, the bank [...] the darkey and the teutonic youths.at sweat board (n.) under sweat, n.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 24 Aug. 2/5: The Atlantics went to New Brunswick short handed, thinking they had a soft thing [...] and were defeated.at soft thing, n.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 17 Nov. 4/1: Continually you will hear men [...] making some positive assertion, [...] ‘You bet your life,’ or ‘You bet your bones’.at bet one’s (sweet) life (v.) under bet, v.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 17 Nov. 4/2: The same with a knife. Horsemen, when travelling, carry it in the boot, and footmen down the neck; hence a bowie-knife is popularly known as a ‘Kansas neck-blister’.at Kansas neck-blister (n.) under Kansas, n.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 20 Oct. 2/6: One letter calls Mr Cunningham ‘old gin-head’.at ginhead (n.) under gin, n.4
Brooklyn Daily Eagle 29 Oct. 2: If we began to excuse and scrutinise the trash that is talked in political meetings, with a view to exclude all the statements we deem filthy and false, we should be responsible for the good faith of the speakers and the truth of the statements which we did report..at trash talk, v.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 9 Feb. 2/6: This generally brings the game to a close, because the cold-decker has won all the money.at cold-deck, v.1
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 9 Feb. 2/6: Purchasing prize packages of candy, of ‘shoo-fly’ bags, of somebody’s tobacco with a prize in; these and similar dodges entice the young.at shoo-fly bag (n.) under shoo-fly, n.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 9 Feb. 2/6: Many a person there is who never sees certain numbers under certain circumstances, but what he buys a little policy ‘gig’ to test his luck.at gig, n.7
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 9 Feb. 2/5: The poorest and lowest [...] will risk their last cent for the prospect of a ‘hit’ in policy.at hit, n.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 9 Feb. 2/5: Children ‘Take the Chances’ by playing ‘hookey,’ or by real hooking.at play hooky, v.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 9 Feb. 2/6: Ropers and steerers are a class of well-dressed men who lounge in front of the principal hotels in the day time, and during dull times live off the earnings of fallen females.at steerer, n.
Brooklyn Eagle 9 Apr. 12: He was what is termed in police parlance a ‘moll buzzer,’ or in other words a thief to [sic] operate among females.at moll buzzer (n.) under moll, n.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 18 Aug. 4/4: The central portion of Thompson street, New York, known as little Africa, on account of the number of negroes who inhabit [...] the street.at Little Africa (n.) under little, adj.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 5 May 2/4: ‘The Cardinal is all skin and grief [...] with a nose as thin as a paper knife’.at skin-and-grief (n.) under skin, n.1
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 12 June 3/8: Leda went up in the air in the backstretch and allowed Martha to glide past.at go up in the air (v.) under air, n.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 11 Dec. 4/7: ‘The Ballad of the Bunco man’ He was a festive bunco sharp / And had a little plan / For catching shekels on the Q / From the verdant countryman.at bunco man (n.) under bunco, n.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 11 Dec. 4/7: ‘The Ballad of the Bunco Man’ [...] It happened that this bunco man / [...] / A ‘fresh’ he chanced to meet.at fresh, n.2
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 11 Dec. 4/7: ‘The Ballad of the Bunco Man’ [...] He sported a light overcoat, / Wore a most stunning spark / Was always lavish with his cash / When out upon a lark.at lark, n.2
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 11 Dec. 4/7: ‘The Ballad of the Bunco Man’ [...] And trhen he called out loudly for / ‘A drop of Old Tom gin’.at old tom, n.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 11 Dec. 4/7: ‘The Ballad of the Bunco man’ He was a festive bunco sharp / And had a little plan / For catching shekels on the Q / From the verdant countryman.at on the Q (adv.) under q, n.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 11 Dec. 4/7: ‘The Ballad of the Bunco Man’ [...] [He] garnered in the shiners / In a manner that was queer.at queer, adj.
Brooklyn Dly Eagle (NY) 11 Dec. 4/7: ‘The Ballad of the Bunco man’ He was a festive bunco sharp / And had a little plan / For catching shekels on the Q / From the verdant countryman.at shekels, n.
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