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letter 25 June in Breslin Damon Runyon (1991) 106: Alfred is having such great success writing about a baseball player named Raymond. He is good and nutsy.at nutsy, adj.
letter 25 June in Breslin Damon Runyon (1991) 106: Alfred is having such great success writing about a baseball player named Raymond. He is good and nutsy. in Breslin Damon Runyon (1992) 220: [of horses] Never a handy / Guy like Sande / Bootin’ them babies in.at baby, n.
in Breslin Damon Runyon (1992) 220: Never a handy / Guy like Sande / Bootin’ them babies in.at boot in (v.) under boot, n.2
in Damon Runyon (1992) 140: Acton was known as John Paul Jones, for the amount of time he spent at sea, on the arm, raising a glass of champagne to the setting sun.at on the arm (adv.) under arm, n.
in Damon Runyon (1992) 298: Harry Cohn [...] had called it ‘arty dreck.’.at arty, adj.
in Damon Runyon (1992) 46: When they miss, you bang them with everything you got.at bang, v.1
in Damon Runyon (1992) 161: The second problem was a safecracking job, and for the first time in crime in New York, they were bringing a baby as a beard.at beard, n.
in Damon Runyon (1992) 128: A bellhop came running in to announce that there was trouble at the Shelton Hotel.at bellhop (n.) under bell, n.1
in Damon Runyon (1992) 2: Any bindlestiff can prosecute people [...] but only the greats step out of the cellar in Astoria and make it with a millionairess.at bindle stiff (n.) under bindle, n.
in Damon Runyon (1992) 296: Marketing a hearing aid that consisted of a metal bug to be fitted into the air.at bug, n.4
(con. 1920s) Damon Runyon (1992) 209: The telegrapher [...] tapped out the Morse code to the newspaper sports department, where another telegrapher typed as he listened to the bug.at bug, n.4
(ref. to 1931) Damon Runyon (1992) 5: ‘Police department. You’re under arrest.’ ‘Frankie! I told you. Bulls!’.at bull, n.5
in Damon Runyon (1992) 119: Rothstein went to the office of his stock brokerage — a bust-them-out operation.at bust out, v.5
Damon Runyon (1992) 86: The joint busted out and the owners [...] showed up at the building at night with gas cans.at bust out, v.5
(ref. to 1930s) in Damon Runyon (1992) 346: Men who wore glasses had on ‘cheaters’ or were called ‘four-eyed.’.at cheaters, n.2
in Damon Runyon (1992) 400: ‘Cockamamy!’ he yelled at them the first day. ‘Do you know where it comes from? In the old days on the East Side, they used to take decals and slap them on their foreheads and run around. It was a thing they did. They said it was “decalomania.” Somebody couldn’t speak right and he called it “cockamania.” That’s where it comes from.’.at cockamamie, adj.
(con. 1928) Damon Runyon (1992) 269: There’s been a comeoff.at come-off, n.
(con. 1916) in Damon Runyon (1992) 163: What is this man Hearst crying about? I only took from his mother, not from him.at cry, v.
in Damon Runyon (1992) 21: ‘Put in the paper that they’re all deadbeats,’ Manny complained to Runyon.at deadbeat, n.
in Damon Runyon (1992) 15: In my husband’s movie he is a two dollar bum.at two-dollar, adj.
in Damon Runyon (1992) 343: He had decided that he wanted to get out of town for good and settle in Hot Springs, Arkansas [...] So freak Carnera.at freak, v.1
in Damon Runyon (1992) 117: Dugan [...] interviewed arsonists, all of whom wanted either a piece of the insurance or front money.at front money, n.
(con. 1911) in Damon Runyon (1992) 134: Did you gag the race?at gag, v.
in Damon Runyon (1992) 260: Runyon [...] listened to another lobbygow gush.at lobby-gow, n.
(con. 1920s) in Damon Runyon (1992) 237: You said you wanted to save the grunt.at grunt, n.
(ref. to 1910s) Damon Runyon (1992) 116: The great line between ‘citizens,’ [...] and [...] ‘wise guys’ or underworld guys, who had either been convicted for something or certainly should have been.at wise guy, n.
(con. 1950s) in Damon Runyon (1992) 403: Don’t be a hard-on [...] I don’t want no hard-ons in my outfit.at hard-on, n.
in Damon Runyon (1992) 116: Two heist guys had walked into his card joint [...] and left him trussed up in a closet.at heist artist (n.) under heist, n.
(con. 1919) Damon Runyon (1992) 188: Four druggists who were prescribing opium, cocaine and heroin to people purportedly in need of hop as medicine.at hop, n.3
in Damon Runyon (1992) 68: If this savage was alive, I’d get a shootin’ iron and he wouldn’t be alive.at shooting iron, n.
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