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Sister of the Road (1975) 63: Often she would meet a prostitute [...] She would often watch how the girl turned her tricks.at turn a trick, v.2
Sister of the Road (1975) 63: Often she would meet a prostitute [...] She would often watch how the girl turned her tricks. Sister of the Road (1975) 184: Many times we had to take the air loft, but there was no actual raid until the last Saturday I was there.at take the air loft (v.) under air loft, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 173: When [the police] were coming he gave us the ‘Air-loft,’ or warning to get away.at air loft, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 178: Nowadays few men want it straight. They want it half and half.at half-and-half, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 174: The girls called him a ‘coffee and’ pimp, because Irene gave him just a dollar a day.at coffee-and pimp (n.) under coffee-and, adj.
Sister of the Road (1975) 307: The robber, in strong-arming a victim grips the victim’s neck and chokes him. As she is doing that, she has at least one accomplice — usually two — who go through the pockets of the victim and punch him in the abdomen or in the head and knock him down and run.at strong-arm, v.
Sister of the Road (1975) 261: I’d take him in, and ‘put the arm on him,’ holding him tight round his neck while my pals would go to it and rob him.at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 301: Beggars [...] may be further sub-divided into groups: a. Blinkey (blind) b. Deafey (deaf) c. Dummy (dumb) d. D & D (deaf and dumb) e. Army or wingey (armless) [etc.].at army, n.1
Sister of the Road (1975) 287: Tavern Habitue. The battle ax — the female bum.at battle-axe, n.1
Sister of the Road (1975) 157: She was a ‘baboon,’ always on the go, always talking and quarreling with her man.at baboon, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 161: After Willy died she went off with ‘Bad Eye,’ another gangster.at bad-eye, n.2
Sister of the Road (1975) 48: They are the barrel house habitués, the type you see lying around in [...] booze joints.at barrelhouse, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 82: Do you mean to say you didn’t swipe anything from that old bear.at bear, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 304: A beater brazenly obtains credit in her own name and gives the impression that she is responsible and will pay the bill.at beater, n.3
Sister of the Road (1975) 37: Sure, I’ll give you a break, you big-mouthed bastard!at big-mouthed, adj.
Sister of the Road (1975) 94: She finished her bit in the workhouse two days before I got there.at bit, n.1
Sister of the Road (1975) 301: Beggars [...] may be further sub-divided into groups: a. Blinkey (blind) b. Deafey (deaf) c. Dummy (dumb) [etc.].at blink, n.1
Sister of the Road (1975) 301: blisters (Those who put acids or alkalis on the limbs to create the impression of ugly sores.at blister, n.1
Sister of the Road (1975) 122: I felt I’d pulled a boner. When I saw Otto’s face I was sure of it.at pull a boner (v.) under boner, n.3
Sister of the Road (1975) 48: They are the barrel house habitues, the type you see lying around in [...] booze joints.at booze crib (n.) under booze, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 177: I called for Margaret, and he began abusing her. Margaret pushed the buzzer for Rudy, the bouncer.at bouncer, n.1
Sister of the Road (1975) 115: This particular outfit, or ‘layout,’ consisted of six bowls and four stems, three small traveling lamps that burned peanut oil, a dozen yen hoks, (like a crochet hook, but finer and more flexible, used for preparing the opium pill) and three yen shee gows, steel instruments for removing the yen shee or ash from the inside of the bowl.at bowl, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 157: You’re giving my jack to those other broads of yours.at broad, n.2
Sister of the Road (1975) 7: Police and pinches, jails, bughouses, and joints seem to have been always a part of my life.at bughouse, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 41: They got a big kick out of bumming their way.at bum, v.3
Sister of the Road (1975) 184: About six o’clock we got the buzz. Pork Chops had seen the vice squad coming.at buzz, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 198: ‘Call Girls’ [...] Working girls who take pay for the pleasure they give and are subject to telephone calls by hotel keepers and others.at call-girl, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 113: Most of the cannons (pickpockets) were married.at cannon, n.2
Sister of the Road (1975) 211: Jones and Roxy and the rest of these cheap-skates who try to exploit misery and suffering ought to be thrown in the lake.at cheapskate, n.
Sister of the Road (1975) 205: That’s all they were, just cheap-skate, petty larceny bus-boys.at cheapskate, adj.
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