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Darkness and Daylight in N.Y. 571: The best quality of this sells for eight dollars and twenty-five cents a can.at can, n.1
Darkness and Daylight in N.Y. 571: The best quality of this sells for eight dollars and twenty-five cents a can. Darkness and Daylight in N.Y. 570: The opium used for smoking – called by the smokers ‘dope’ – is an aqueous extract of the ordinary commercial gum.at dope, n.1
Darkness and Daylight in N.Y. 565: The little lamp on the tray is called ‘the fairy’ [...] its flame was used for cooking and burning opium.at fairy, n.2
Darkness and Daylight in N.Y. 610: Ladies’ dresses are ‘hung up,’ as they would be injured by folding. Hence arises the slang term of ‘hung up’ for an article that has been pledged at the pawnbroker’s.at hang up, v.1
Darkness and Daylight in N.Y. 565: Near the lamp was a little box of bone, called the hop toy, that held opium.at hop toy (n.) under hop, n.3
Darkness and Daylight in N.Y. 163: We’ll go hunks, an’ whatever I have you shall have the same.at go hunks (v.) under hunk, adj.
Darkness and Daylight in N.Y. 565: A little box of tin held the yen she or bits of refuse opium.at yen-shee, n.
Darkness and Daylight in N.Y. 565: A needle four or five inches long and flattened at one end was the yen hoc, for holding the opium in the flame.at yen hock (n.) under yen, n.1
Darkness and Daylight in N.Y. 569: ‘I’ve got the yen-yen (opium habit) the worst way,’ said one woman, ‘and must have my pipe every night. I want two or three pipes before I can get to sleep, and sometimes I want half a dozen.’.at yen yen (n.) under yen, n.1
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