1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 11: Annoyed at being trailed by two small ‘no ’count white trash,’ he quickened his gait.at no-account, adj.
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 250: ‘Where’s Peck’s bad boy?’ the sheriff called into the cells.at bad boy, n.
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 69: I met some men while I was across the Bay, who knew that I was born a hoodlum.at Bay, the, n.
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 308: ‘Say, Dan an’ another guy beat the joint up above, yesterday.’ ‘Dan free! Good old Dan!’.at beat, v.
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 149: Say! most of the beefs from the residence section give a description that tallies with you to a T.at beef, n.2
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 70: Fred preceded us into the shop. The gun was laid upon the counter [...] Uncle Ben explained at great length on the merit of the weapon.at Uncle Benny, n.
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 302: Had to throw a slug or let him out [...] and we was too near through to start blasting.at blast, v.1
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 7: On the trains we saw no ‘blinds,’ no ‘trucks,’ no steps by which we could climb to the car tops.at blinds, n.
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 259: A guy gets to boiling up in here and says a lot of guff he don’t mean. [Ibid.] 261: This solitary pacing earned me the reputation of being constantly ‘boiled up’.at boil, v.
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 177: He had tried to escape [...] and exhibited a withered arm as a tribute to the guard’s marksmanship and his own failure to ‘Make the brush’.at brush, n.1
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 284: ‘Keeping ’em from touching off a bug’ – that is, preventing any clerk from pressing an alarm button.at bug, n.4
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 193: Say! why didn’t you send word to Dan or me after you was clouted in that house prowl?at clout, v.2
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 81: Someone cut loose with a shotgun. Christ! What a mess!at cut loose, v.
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life in Hamilton Men of the Und. 260: You’re just a God-damned liar.at god-damned, adj.
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 66: He’s an awful harmless ding [...] He can’t steal because he ain’t got the guts, and he just gets by with that car and his bum broad.at ding, n.2
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 193: Some Socialists are playing the duck completely on the draft.at play the duck (v.) under duck, n.6
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 98: He was then working with a ‘mob’ of pickpockets – ‘putting his duke down’.at duke, n.3
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 259: They’re just a bit off their feed.at off one’s feed (adj.) under feed, n.
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 259: ‘That guy,’ someone said, ‘is a rat.’ Another [...] added: ‘So’s the fink with him.’.at fink, n.
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 295: Stick with Buddy a moment – I’ll take a flash myself.at flash, n.1
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 287: There had been a time when it would have made a sensation, but not now [...] it would be only a one-day flash.at flash, n.1
1929 E. Booth Stealing Through Life 257: We better make the lower yard for a quick gander.at gander, n.3