1954 C. Chessman Cell 2455 84: Well [...] if it ain’t the gutless wonder. You looking for another ass-kicking, maybe?at ass-kicking, n.
1954 C. Chessman Cell 2455 73: ‘You think you want to be bad and you don’t know how.’ ‘Bad’ had a non-dictionary meaning they both understood. The word connotated something affirmative, forceful.at bad, adj.
1954 (con. 1949) C. Chessman Cell 2455 314: If I had a potential bag full of tricks, why should I hesitate to use them?at bag of tricks (n.) under bag, n.1
1954 C. Chessman Cell 2455 6: If he wants he can say goodbye to all or any of the men he’s been living with for eleven months, or he can walk straight to the birdcage.at birdcage, n.
1954 (con. 1941) C. Chessman Cell 2455 217: We had our heads shaved [...] and then assigned single cells in what was then the ‘Fish tank’ section of the Old Prison.at fish-bowl, n.
1954 C. Chessman Cell 2455 10: Big Red hears the plop, plop, plop of the deadly cyanide ‘eggs’ as they drop into the acid pan beneath the chair.at chair, the, n.
1954 (con. 1940) C. Chessman Cell 2455 179: I can dump this clunker as soon as we can get hold of my car.at clunker, n.1
1954 (con. 1940) C. Chessman Cell 2455 175: So you cowboy it; you rob everything and anything in the way of business establishments.at cowboy, v.
1954 (con. 1938) C. Chessman Cell 2455 107: How about the old gink here [...] do we shake him down too?at shake down, v.
1954 (con. 1937) C. Chessman Cell 2455 91: There were those who wanted his job, who wanted to make a reputation as tough guys, bad dukes.at duke, n.1
1954 C. Chessman Cell 2455 66: ‘I’ll meet you here tonight around six.’ ‘Got ya,’ Tim said.at gotcha!, excl.
1954 C. Chessman Cell 2455 11: A special crew removes Big Red’s body from the ‘green room’ and takes it to the prison morgue.at green room (n.) under green, adj.1
1954 (con. 1938) C. Chessman Cell 2455 116: You pus-gutted bastard.at pus-gutted (adj.) under pus-gut, n.
1954 (con. 1948) C. Chessman Cell 2455 284: You haven’t got a snowball’s chance in hell if you don’t produce a third party.at not have a snowball’s chance (in hell) under hell, n.
1954 (con. 1943) C. Chessman Cell 2455 258: I was transferred to the Los Angeles County Jail and confined to the ‘High Power’ tank.at high power (n.) under high, adj.1
1954 (con. 1938) C. Chessman Cell 2455 114: Whit was self-reliant. He got along. Nobody tried to hoosier him out of his money.at hoosier, v.
1954 (con. 1938) C. Chessman Cell 2455 103: What’ll probably happen is that I’ll do all right for myself and you’ll wind up in a jackpot.at jackpot, n.
1954 (con. 1940) C. Chessman Cell 2455 176: We saw, dimly, a shape coming towards us. A uniformed shape! John Law again!at John Law (n.) under john, n.1
1954 (con. 1943) C. Chessman Cell 2455 244: Look, Joy Boy [...] I’m in no condition for this sort of thing.at joy boy (n.) under joy, n.
1954 (con. 1940) C. Chessman Cell 2455 175: You knock over six, eight, ten, or twelve places in a night.at knock over, v.
1954 (con. 1941) C. Chessman Cell 2455 196: We were wobbling and bouncing along in what most appropriately can be described as a remarkable rendition of a vehicular kootch dance.at kootch, n.
1954 (con. 1943) C. Chessman Cell 2455 252: I should have run [...] lammed out of southern California.at lam, v.2
1954 (con. 1941) C. Chessman Cell 2455 220: I was given four Sunday lock-ups and lost my privilege card for thirty days.at lockup, n.
1954 (con. 1948) C. Chessman Cell 2455 293: Would a two-time loser who intimately knew the ins and outs of crime approach a car unmasked and proceed to commit penny ante crimes punishable by death.at two-time loser, n.