1925 Black Mask Aug. III 71: I see things wasn’t all beer and skittles with Mart.at all beer and skittles, phr.
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 108: The fellows [...] only found an old house that’s no more like the place you beefed about than this is like a pickle factory.at beef, v.1
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 35: It takes time to get that on the phone, and when I do – blooey – Coe hasn’t been there.at blooey!, excl.
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 35: It’s funny face – the brainless wonder.at brainless wonder (n.) under brain, n.1
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 112: ‘Why didn’t you let me go with you?’ I busted in.at bust in (v.) under bust, v.1
1925 Black Mask Dec. XXII 87: Listen, lady. I have had to press the button on a few guys, yes. In self-defense.at press the button (v.) under button, n.1
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 54: Neatly piled on it was an opium smoking outfit, together with a can of ‘Mud’.at can, n.1
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 60: Somebody has cleaned old Adams and now he comes bellyaching.at clean, v.
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 9: The clothes-horse behind the curtain sure was getting one earful.at clotheshorse, n.
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 105: I’d thought up two or three corkers [...] he could take his pick.at corker, n.2
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 38: ‘Oh – him,’ I said easily. ‘I crashed him before I came in.’.at crash, v.
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 59: Where’s the diamonds you crooked from me at the hotel in Shola?at crook, v.1
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 55: You got the mud, Adams? [...] I’m damn near dead for a smoke.at dead for (adj.) under dead, adj.
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 99: His ‘dip’ into the mailbag had been a real prize package after all.at dip, n.1
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 61: I [...] saw Berry hot footing it back into the lower hall.at hot foot, v.
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 83: I can beat that forty ways.at forty ways from the jack (adv.) under forty, adj.1
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 108: The fellows came back from the woods and said they hunted to hell and gone and only found an old house.at to hell and gone under hell, n.
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 59: Helen and Al had gone to supper at one of the Italian red ink restaurants off Broadway.at red ink joint (n.) under red ink, n.
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 94: He didn’t pull the job himself [...] because he’d be recognized.at pull a job (v.) under job, n.2
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 16: I’d slipped on a pair of knuckle dusters – brass knuckles if you get what I mean.at knuckleduster, n.
1925 Black Mask Aug. III 11: He wasn’t no gunman – not him. That was the how of his taking the lead so easily, not being a quick shooter.at get the lead (v.) under lead, n.