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(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 50: I’m sorry to be so bumfuzzled, fellows.at bamfoozled (adj.) under bamfoozle, v.
(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 50: I’m sorry to be so bumfuzzled, fellows. (con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 37: An armored car, and a caboose, pulled out into the Santa Fe lines heading for ‘The Big Top’.at big top (n.) under big, adj.
(con. 1950s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 101: When I reflected on that statement later I got goosebumps thinking what a blooper it had been.at blooper, n.
(con. 1940s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 57: After going through the torment of withdrawal, I was hit by ‘the chuck habit’ — a desire for food.at chuck habit (n.) under chuck, n.3
(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 40: I was put to serving mainline ‘chuck’ in the mess hall.at chuck, n.3
(con. 1960s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 143: A gathering of hundreds of convicts who were taking their free-time [...] to get together and listen to an ‘ex’.at ex, n.1
(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 39: Three weeks spent in the ‘Fish Gallery’.at fish, n.1
(con. 1930s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 55: Though Delaudid had been my favorite (I would shoot those ‘footballs’ — ½ grain — by the hatful), I was put on morphine sulphate.at football, n.
(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 46: One of the bigtime racketeers who was doing time at the ‘Free Hotel’.at free hotel (n.) under free, adj.
(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 16: My employers operated a ‘flat store’ — a game of chance that could be controlled with a ‘gaff’ or ‘break’.at gaff, n.3
(con. 1940s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 98: They’re gonna top me, soon. It’s the Green Room for me.at green room (n.) under green, adj.1
(con. 1950s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 120: Sure enough, the saints did ‘ham it up’.at ham, v.2
(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 18: If such hostility seemed afoot, the first carney to recognize it would yell, ‘Hey, Rube!’.at hey Rube!, excl.
(con. 1930s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 82: A hurried court [...] and then I would take a quick trip to ‘The Old Hot Squat’.at hot seat, n.
(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 36: Because I was known to run with a rough bunch and used narcotics, I suddenly found myself classified in the company of [...] ‘Hypo’ Dinneke.at hypo, n.2
(con. 1940s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 74: I’d laced me one joker for eleven hundred dollars.at lace, v.
(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 19: We would be forced to operate ‘on the muscle’.at on the muscle under muscle, n.
(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 36: My very first conviction cost me a ‘nickel’ — five years in Leavenworth Federal Pen.at nickel, n.
(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 47: After getting polluted [he] decided to do something real daring.at polluted, adj.
(con. 1930s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 40: To be caught giving larger portions meant you would get ‘shot’ (this meant you were written up for disciplinary action which could result in the loss of such privileges as smoking or attending the movies).at get shot (v.) under shot, adj.
(con. 1940s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 55: When the change from morphine to Demerol came, I told the doctors I was getting sick.at sick, adj.2
(con. 1930s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 39: This gentle giant put us through the paces that all ‘skinners’ endure — being shorn of hair, stripped and deloused, then undergoing examination for any communicable diseases.at skinner, n.4
(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 9: On my inaugural night in ‘Old Sol’ I was in such bad physical condition.at sol, n.
(con. 1920s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 14: Withdrawing money I won in the crooked games I had conducted before going into solitaire.at solitaire, n.
(con. 1940s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 81: I was next door to ‘Old Sparky’.at old sparky (n.) under spark, n.1
(con. 1940s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 81: I was next door to ‘Old Sparky’.at old sparky (n.) under sparky, n.
(con. 1940s) Monkey Off My Back (1972) 98: They’re gonna top me, soon.at top, v.3
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