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[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 31: But rarely a day went by without a ‘circus’, as the prisoners called it.
at circus, n.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 43: I’d getta job as a maid in a swell home, then clean the joint and make my get-away.
at clean, v.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 115: Do you think you could buy me a pair of shoes? These clodhoppers are terrible!
at clodhopper, n.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 131: She had been drinking ‘cokewater’ (cocaine dissolved in water) for several days.
at coke-water (n.) under coke, n.1
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 143: This place is a crazy house. I think I’ll go out of my mind if I have to stay here much longer.
at crazy house (n.) under crazy, n.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 106: It was duck soup for those hardboiled convicts.
at duck soup, n.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 78: Be careful of O’Gorman – she’s dynamite!
at dynamite, adj.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 42: When lights goes out, let’s have a gab-fest, eh?
at gabfest (n.) under gab, v.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 138: There are some mighty hard-boiled guys here now.
at guy, n.2
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 99: Let me see your hypo marks.
at hypo, n.2
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 131: She was really all lit up with a fine dope-jag.
at jag, n.1
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 20: I can’t feel that it’s justice to put you in that jug over there.
at jug, n.1
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict 77: They’ve been lady-loving — and they don’t want the bull to catch them at it!
at lady love (v.) under lady, n.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 56: Pretty soft! The life of Reilly!
at life of Riley, n.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 45: Hey, lousy! Can that goddamn noise.
at lousy, n.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 35: She had several dollars in her hand. ‘Two easy marks,’ she said.
at easy mark (n.) under mark, n.1
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 75: All the high monkey-monks are talking about it.
at monkey-monk, n.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 115: It’s a pipe [...] All you need is the dough.
at pipe, n.1
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 52: C’mon, come clean, shoot the works, yer know yer can trust me, pal.
at shoot the works (v.) under shoot, v.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 116: I’m fed up of keeping my eyes closed and holding my tongue just to get a little better food and a soft snap of a job.
at soft snap (n.) under snap, n.2
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 74: What have you done? You’re going into solitary.
at solitary, n.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 16: What the hell is the use of trying to keep on the square in this world?
at on the square under square, adj.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 77: She goes bats at night and yells like hell – she’s a real stir bug!
at stir-bug (n.) under stir, n.1
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 29: Frenchy had a stooge named Rose.
at stooge, n.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 29: She would telegraph to Frenchy the exact cards held by her opponents.
at telegraph, v.
[US] V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 116: This girl was a spy, and I had tipped my hand.
at tip one’s mitt (v.) under tip, v.3
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