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[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 114: I run myself ragged getting all dolled up in a clean shirt and a shave. But does she come? In a pig’s eye, she does!
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 113: Dames are a pain in the whoosis.
at pain in the arse, n.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 28: You hold out your hands and take your cut. But the minute things start getting tough you want to ‘drag arse’ out.
at drag ass, v.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 114: You bellyachers gripe me.
at belly-acher (n.) under bellyache, v.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 30: The doc swings some weight with the ‘Big Fellow’; that’s how he got this job.
at big man (n.) under big, adj.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 36: Some of the men started yelling and throwing their plates in the air. The P.K. came along and hauled them off to the ‘bing’.
at bing, n.2
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 114: Blooie! the lid is off!
at blooey!, excl.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 77: I’ll speak to the warden about you and have you ‘bugged,’ feller!
at bug, v.6
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 125: He skinned his hands against the damp concrete of his cage.
at cage, n.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 99: From mouth to mouth it had spread ‘crush out!’ ‘Lucci got away’.
at crush out, n.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 131: From the warden down, all these bastards give a damn about is to see that no one ‘crushes out’.
at crush out, v.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 42: He minced off, passing a manicured hand through his marcelled hair. Michaels waved his hand after him, la-de-da fashion.
at la-di-da(h), adj.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 57: You sure swing a mean ‘headache stick,’ don’t you, dep?
at dep, n.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 28: Once a junkie, always a dope, is my opinion.
at dope, n.1
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 111: You should have let me dust him off, boss.
at dust (off) (v.) under dust, v.1
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 43: He thought, what a break, after all those fish-faced dames we had as nurses.
at fish-faced, adj.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 68: Get him transferred to the prison ‘farm’ up at Greenkill for convalescence.
at farm, n.1
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 62: He was simply fit to be tied. The more he screamed and raved at them, the more they laughed.
at fit to be tied under fit to..., phr.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 29: It ain’t often we get a nifty piece of fluff like that around.
at fluff, n.1
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 51: I knew even then I was being played for a boob.
at play for, v.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 114: What the hell can a ‘gee’ do when he ain’t been stayed with in years?
at gee, n.3
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 80: The gladiators ignored his sarcasm and allowed themselves to be led away in silence.
at gladiator school, n.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 9: That’s just ‘Gloomy Gus’s’ way of putting you in your place.
at gloomy gus, n.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 64: Why, that hussy has become the worst gonsil in the place.
at gonsel, n.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 114: You bellyachers gripe me.
at gripe, v.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 58: No hack can make a monkey out of me.
at hack, n.3
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 57: You sure swing a mean ‘headache stick,’ don’t you, dep?
at headache-stick (n.) under headache, n.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 62: Broadway Rose was transferred back, from the hospital. Of course, Lester her ‘husband’ was simply overjoyed to see ‘her’!
at husband, n.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 123: To the inmates they [correction cells] were known variously as the ‘bing,’ [...] ‘ice box’ and ‘cooler’.
at icebox, n.
[US] L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 28: You’re in this up to your neck. You’re standing for it.
at in, adv.
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