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Original Handbook of Harlem Jive choose

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[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive (1944) 25: Them leg-sacks were stashed by the smoke-hole, in fact.
at leg sacks (n.) under leg, n.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 18 Sept. 22: Then you latch onto a groundpad spade and ease your pair of horned corns into your dagger pointed goldies.
at dagger-pointed goldies, n.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 115: And, pops, we dig ours without copping a plea.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 26: Cop a trot! Cop a trot! Then cop a squat, all.
at cop a squat (v.) under cop a..., v.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 19: They can’t dig a spade and a fine young gray scribe copping a tapper on the main drag.
at cop a tapper (v.) under cop a..., v.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 17: The Lane [...] came up with a kill joy, who tagged the play with a slammer issue (but the skull sniffed a powder).
at sniff a powder, v.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 12: I cops a drill right after them.
at cop a drill (v.) under cop a..., v.
[US] ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.
at cop a drill (v.) under cop a..., v.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 102: [of a pretty girl] I was keyholing this roundtripper like a cat on the peek port.
at keyhole a round-tripper, v.
[US] ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.
at Abie, n.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 42: Ah, ’tis my gallant Othello, ace of my spades.
at ace of spades (n.) under ace, n.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 52: An ace-deuce means three; and a tray and a solo means four.
at ace-deuce, n.1
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 42: This weep act, ole man, is out of this world.
at act, n.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 18: I’m with the issue and down with the action, especially since it’s built on a solid half-traction.
at action on a solid half traction under action, n.
[US] ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.
at air bags (n.) under air, n.
[US] ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.
at alligator, n.
[US] ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.
at alligator bait (n.) under alligator, n.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.
at in-and-out-of, n.
[US] ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.
at in-and-outer, n.2
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 47: Pipe down on the rooting and tooting.
at rooting and tooting, n.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 15: Make it the future dims and brights unhipped on the blacks and whites.
at dims and brights, n.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 105: I’m suffering with the fews.
at fews and twos, n.
[US] ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.
at black-and-tan, n.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 64: It’s on the third floor [...] You ring the bell twice to get your shwimps and wice.
at shrimps and rice, n.
[US] ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.
at wringing and twisting, n.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 89: ‘A Square’ is the poor chap who works for a living, who does not know any of the ‘angles’.
at angle, n.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 79: Anxious — Wonderful, excellent.
at anxious, adj.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 60: You ain’t nowhere without your proper Square.
at anywhere, adj.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 106: He was now sad as a poor chick’s funeral with that Apollo play.
at Apollo play, n.
[US] D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 18: What those grey studs [...] don’t cop is that the average Lane today is from the Apple, whether it’s the Big Apple, the Windy Apple, the Tropic Apple, or the Bunker Hill Apple.
at Apple, n.
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