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You Can’t Win (1926) 231: When spring came, my Chinese ‘tillicum,’ which is Chinook for friend, and I were the only felony prisoners in the ‘skookum house,’ or jail.at skookum house, n.
You Can’t Win (1926) 231: When spring came, my Chinese ‘tillicum,’ which is Chinook for friend, and I were the only felony prisoners in the ‘skookum house,’ or jail. You Can’t Win (2000) 254: I [...] ‘slipped’ the town marshal his ‘once a week’.at once a week, n.2
You Can’t Win (2000) 207: He was a fine fellow, an Englishman, and to use an English expression in describing him, I’ll say he was ‘a bit of all right’.at bit of all right, a, phr.
You Can’t Win 60: They’ll wise up an’ you’ll lose her, or put her up against hop, an’ you’ll have a bum on your hands.at against, prep.
You Can’t Win (2000) 14: I am not lugging in the fact that I was left motherless at the age of ten to alibi myself away from anything.at alibi (up), v.
You Can’t Win (2000) 113: That’s why you are declared ‘in and in’ with the works.at in and in, adv.
You Can’t Win (2000) 27: I think you’re on the square with me, and I’m going to be on the up and up with you.at on the up and up (adj.) under up-and-up, n.
You Can’t Win (2000) 98: The ‘target’ is the most reliable man in the mob [...] He is the first one to get shot at and the last. It’s his job to carry the heavy artillery and stand off the natives while the others get the coin, and then to cover the get-away.at artillery, n.
You Can’t Win (2000) 190: The quantity of food I put away convinced them I belonged on the water front.at put away, v.
You Can’t Win (2000) 164: The dirty, big, red-headed Amazonian battle-ax.at battle-axe, n.1
You Can’t Win (2000) 44: When he does squawk, like this one, the only thing to do is to blow back his money.at blow back, v.
You Can’t Win (2000) 282: The jacket is no longer in use and no purpose would be served by living over those three days in the ‘bag’.at bag, n.1
You Can’t Win (2000) 134: You’re in with what ‘gow’ I’ve got. Let’s bang it up before they come and take it away from us.at bang up, v.1
You Can’t Win (2000) 175: The beer bums and barrel-house five cent whiskey bums came under my notice.at barrelhouse, n.
You Can’t Win (2000) 223: Red don’t see any use in givin’ himself a bawl-out by indentifyin’ any dead burglars.at bawl-out, n.1
You Can’t Win (2000) 172: We’ll hike the forty miles into town [...] beat off the box, and get a couple of horses out of the livery stable.at beat off (v.) under beat, v.
You Can’t Win (2000) 152: Some hard-fisted miner beefed him like an ox with a fast one to the jaw, and kicked his ‘gat’ out into the street.at beef, v.2
You Can’t Win (2000) 14: It has often been a question with me just how much the best of it a boy has [...] who has a home and its influences.at best (of it), n.
You Can’t Win (2000) 175: The hunt was still on for the burglar with the big end of the money.at big end (of) (n.) under big, adj.
You Can’t Win (2000) 61: One of them was unrolling a ‘bindle’ of blankets.at bindle, n.
You Can’t Win (2000) 138: Last night we ducks out and down Jackson Street to the commission houses and gather up a couple of bindles of wood.at bindle, n.
You Can’t Win (2000) 61: Come on down, kid. Don’t be leery. We’re only a couple of harmless bindle stiffs.at bindle stiff (n.) under bindle, n.
You Can’t Win (2000) 217: All prisoners got a plug of ‘black strap’ chewing tobacco every week.at black strap (n.) under black, adj.
You Can’t Win (2000) 258: A more careful and experienced ‘blacksmith’ would have taken measures to prevent that big safe from falling on its face.at blacksmith, n.1
You Can’t Win (2000) 179: Harvest workers were called blanket stiffs or gay cats.at blanket stiff (n.) under blanket, n.
You Can’t Win (2000) 151: His ‘cappers,’ ‘boosters,’ and ‘shills’ fought with the yokels for a chance to get something for nothing and always beat them to the pieces of soap containing the money.at booster, n.1
You Can’t Win (2000) 163: Mary hits me in the back of the head with a bottle of beer, and when I go down she puts the boots to me.at put the boots to (v.) under boot, the, n.
You Can’t Win 24: I ‘lived at the hotel,’ had ‘nobody to boss me around’.at boss, v.
You Can’t Win 93: Shorty was one of the patricians of the prison, a ‘box man’ doing time for bank burglary.at boxman, n.
You Can’t Win 111: ‘Brass peddlers,’ bums who sold imitation gold jewelry, principally rings, appeared on the streets with their ninety-cents-a-dozen gold ‘hoops’ made in Wichita, Kansas, and ‘dropped’ them to the Indian squaws and railroad laborers for any price from one dollar up […]. [Ibid.] There is no more industrious person than a half-drunk brass peddler out on the street ‘making a plunge’ for enough coin to buy himself another micky of alcohol.at brass peddler (n.) under brass, n.1
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