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[US] 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.
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 300: ‘All set, Bill,’ I called to Dan.
at all set, adj.
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 250: ‘Where’s Peck’s bad boy?’ the sheriff called into the cells.
at bad boy, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 152: Just bumming around gets awfully tiresome.
at bumming, n.
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 290: There’s a Cad parking there now.
at Cad, n.
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 281: I’ve cased it, on and off for a month.
at case, v.1
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 47: The way she dresses and cuts up is a caution.
at caution, n.
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 300: Try that chip. See if it’s sloughed.
at chip, n.5
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 302: Mae asked: ‘Clean? No battle?’.
at clean, adj.
[US] 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
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 296: This is a fast clout.
at clout, n.3
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 81: Someone cut loose with a shotgun. Christ! What a mess!
at cut loose, v.
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life in Hamilton Men of the Und. 260: You’re just a God-damned liar.
at god-damned, adj.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 98: He was then working with a ‘mob’ of pickpockets – ‘putting his duke down’.
at duke, n.3
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 259: They’re just a bit off their feed.
at off one’s feed (adj.) under feed, n.
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 259: ‘That guy,’ someone said, ‘is a rat.’ Another [...] added: ‘So’s the fink with him.’.
at fink, n.
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 295: Stick with Buddy a moment – I’ll take a flash myself.
at flash, n.1
[US] 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
[US] E. Booth Stealing Through Life 257: We better make the lower yard for a quick gander.
at gander, n.3
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