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[US] J. Blake letter 25 Feb. Joint (1972) 13: I was sent to the Box, a solitary cell.
at box, n.1
[US] J. Blake letter 23 Dec. in Joint (1972) 27: I have started a little bootlegging operation, making ‘buck’ (prison liquor) out of cornbread, cane syrup and water.
at buck, n.7
[US] J. Blake letter in Joint (1972) 14: It’s rugged, back-breaking labor on the bull gang.
at bull gang (n.) under bull, n.1
[US] J. Blake letter 23 Dec. in Joint (1972) 27: The joint is full of cheese-eaters.
at cheese-eater (n.) under cheese, n.1
[US] J. Blake letter 15 April in Joint (1972) 19: To report these unsavory and totally lost creatures [...] is called ‘ratting’ or ‘cheese-eating’.
at eat cheese, v.1
[US] J. Blake letter 21 June in Joint (1972) 23: They had us cold, of course.
at cold, adv.
[US] J. Blake letter 25 Feb. in Joint (1972) 13: I copped out on the larceny charges, figuring to get six months at the most.
at cop out, v.2
[US] J. Blake letter 21 June in Joint (1972) 21: Well, I tried to hang it up, and with my usual flair, I stepped on my dick.
at step on one’s dick (v.) under dick, n.1
[US] J. Blake letter 30 Dec. in Joint (1972) 29: If I made a Thing of it and let it drag me, I really would flip.
at drag, v.1
[US] J. Blake letter 21 June in Joint (1972) 22: I pointed out to him that he and his shillelah had put the heat on but good and fucked me up for fair.
at for fair, adv.
[US] J. Blake letter 25 Feb. in Joint (1972) 13: My fall partner was a Southerner.
at fall partner (n.) under fall, n.
[US] J. Blake letter 25 Feb. in Joint (1972) 14: The remains of the proceeds from a gas station we pilfered before we fell.
at fall, v.1
[US] J. Blake letter 30 Dec. in Joint (1972) 29: If I made a Thing of it and let it drag me, I really would flip.
at flip, v.4
[US] J. Blake letter 21 June in Joint (1972) 22: I pointed out to him that he and his shillelah had put the heat on but good and fucked me up for fair.
at fuck up, v.
[US] J. Blake letter 25 Feb. in Joint (1972) 14: One of the guards will grease for twenty-five bucks.
at grease, v.1
[US] J. Blake letter 25 Feb. in Joint (1972) 14: There is another and better way to hang it up, which is to have a car pick me up on the road where the crew is working.
at hang it up, v.
[US] J. Blake letter 18 Mar. in Joint (1972) 16: Being away from [...] all that sex hassle, has done wonders for my peace of mind and serenity.
at hassle, n.
[US] in J. Blake Joint (1972) 24: He is simply the brass-brained, muscle-bound Golden Boy who appointed himself my jailhouse Daddy-o.
at jailhouse daddy (n.) under jailhouse, adj.
[US] J. Blake letter 20 May in Joint (1972) 20: Because one of the trusties here last night took off for the altogether elsewhere, the joint is jumping.
at jump, v.
[US] J. Blake letter 21 June in Joint (1972) 21: I gave him the loot, twenty-five.
at loot, n.1
[US] J. Blake letter 25 Feb. in Joint (1972) 14: Well, that is the whole loused-up deal.
at loused-up (adj.) under louse up, v.
[US] J. Blake letter 21 June in Joint (1972) 21: He said if the motherin’ screw ever caught up to us, he’d wish he hadn’t.
at mothering, adj.
[US] J. Blake letter 15 April in Joint (1972) 19: We also have a group of prisoners called ‘creeps’ or ‘nightcrawlers,’ who prowl the dormitory at night and steal from the other sleeping prisoners.
at night crawler (n.) under night, n.
[US] J. Blake letter 30 Dec. in Joint (1972) 29: It’s no use to piss and moan about it.
at piss and moan (v.) under piss, v.
[US] J. Blake letter 25 Feb. in Joint (1972) 13: We did some boosting together and everything was cool, until he got drunk and was picked up for prowling cars.
at prowl, v.
[US] J. Blake letter 30 Dec. in Joint (1972) 27: I was somewhat rocked to hear that Lisa had shown you the letters I wrote to her.
at rock, v.1
[US] J. Blake letter 23 Dec. in Joint (1972) 27: Louie remains the Eternal Shit-Bird.
at shitbird, n.2
[US] J. Blake letter 27 Jan. in Joint (1972) 31: I understand that buck fever is not unusual among convicts approaching release.
at buck fever (n.) under buck, n.1
[US] J. Blake letter 27 Jan. in Joint (1972) 31: Tom has been a jack-roller on Clark Street in Chicago, and tells zestfully of sending untold number of ‘marks’ rocketing into oblivion through the use of chloral hydrate.
at jack roller, n.
[US] J. Blake letter 10 May in Joint (1972) 52: [man to man] Baby, such gloom!
at baby, n.
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