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[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 67: If she gets ‘bad’ (objects or resists) she gets ‘a slam in the puss’.
at bad, adj.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 70: They will ‘bull’ around until they get ‘sloughed’ and it serves ’em right.
at bull, v.1
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 238: The plan was a terrible success. The boys commenced to bring in the girls. They had nice clothes; their hair was allowed to grow long and hang away down on their forehead. They wore white mufflers around their necks, and this was the origination of the famous ‘cadet’ system of New York. Thousands of boys from fifteen to twenty-two years [...] joined the ‘cadets’ and went into the tenement district corrupting young girls and inducing them to enter the life of shame.
at cadet, n.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 70: Oh, how easy to go out and ‘cop a quim’ and peddle her.
at cop, v.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 51: Girls that say ‘Come on, you ain’t game,’ girls that make ‘cop outs’ or mashes, girls that are looking for an easy mark.
at cop-out, n.1
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 45: ‘Say, Bell, you know that little red-headed quim that boards over at Scar Face Annie’s. She took a dime’s worth last night.’ [...] When they speak of ‘a dime’s worth’ they mean morphine.
at dime, n.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 176: The Slaver [...] don’t care for the ‘cheap floosies;’ he is out after a ‘doll’ that he can get $300 for.
at doll, n.1
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 39: The Slaver slips her the K.O.D, knockout drops or drugs.
at knockout drops, n.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 30: Tell that floosie to cut out that yelping.
at floozy, n.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 34: This man is the ‘slickest and most dangerous of all’ [...] None of your common ‘molls’ for him – he plays for the ‘swell Janes’.
at play for, v.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 78: They [the Chinamen] bury them in one of the many underground graves, where they bury the informer, or ‘lobbygow’. [Ibid.] 80: The girl had not been in the den more than twenty-four hours before a ‘lobbygow’ – a Chinaman who acts as stool pigeon and informer to the police – told two Mulberry Street detectives.
at lobby-gow, n.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 80: She [...] went into a chop suey ‘joint’ to get a bite to eat.
at joint, n.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 27: The girl expressed her willingness to enter the life.
at life, n.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 7: Remember I am not a long-haired individual with a soft shirt and flowing bow tie [...] but a man of the world.
at longhaired, adj.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 51: Girls that say ‘Come on, you ain’t game,’ girls that make ‘cop outs’ or mashes, girls that are looking for an easy mark.
at easy mark (n.) under mark, n.1
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 113: And what makes these pest holes possible? A lot of old licentious papy guys.
at pappy guy (n.) under pappy, adj.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 70: Can you imagine some poor ignorant ‘stiff’ going out and ‘prowling’ some house, takin’ a chance on gettin’ his ‘roof blowed off,’ or gettin’ ‘slowed’ and ‘slammed’ in the stir for a ‘ten spot’.
at prowl, v.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 45: Say, Bell, you know that little red-headed quim that boards over at Scar Face Annie’s. She took a dime’s worth last night.
at quim, n.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 70: No ‘dick’ has anything on you. And if you’re you get nicked for ‘laughing’ you can ‘raspberry’ the ‘bull’ and get ‘sprung’.
at raspberry, v.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 70: Can you imagine some poor ignorant ‘stiff’ going out and ‘prowling’ some house, takin’ a chance on gettin’ his ‘roof blowed off,’ or gettin’ ‘slowed’ and ‘slammed’ in the stir for a ‘ten spot.’.
at roof, n.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 70: Now wouldn’t a ‘guy’ be a ‘simp’ to go out and stick some ‘rummy’ and get two dollars and ten years.
at rummy, n.1
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 46: They all travel the same road, be they queens or scrub girls.
at scrub, n.1
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 66: If the girl is what they call a ‘simp’ (the slang word for simpleton) the Slaver drives her direct to the resort.
at simp, n.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 67: If she gets ‘bad’ (objects or resists) she gets a ‘slam in the puss’.
at slam, n.1
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 70: Can you imagine some poor ignorant ‘stiff’ going out and ‘prowling’ some house, takin’ a chance on gettin’ his ‘roof blowed off,’ or gettin’ ‘slowed’ and ‘slammed’ in the stir for a ‘ten spot’.
at slowed, adj.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 46: As soon as a girl loses her attractiveness she is ‘split out’ and has to go to a resort or class, or degree, lower.
at split, v.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 70: Can you imagine some poor ignorant ‘stiff’ going out and ‘prowling’ some house, takin’ a chance on gettin’ his ‘roof blowed off,’ or gettin’ ‘slowed’ and ‘slammed’ in the stir for a ‘ten spot’.
at ten-spot (n.) under -spot, sfx
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 70: ‘Snatchin’ simps’ is good enough for little Willie, there is no ‘fall,’ no squawk [...] no ‘dick’ has anything on you.
at squawk, n.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 70: Now wouldn’t a ‘guy’ be a ‘simp’ to go out and stick some ‘rummy’ and get two dollars and ten years.
at stick, v.
[US] C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 70: Can you imagine some poor ignorant ‘stiff’ going out and ‘prowling’ some house, takin’ a chance on gettin’ his ‘roof blowed off,’ or gettin’ ‘slowed’ and ‘slammed’ in the stir for a ‘ten spot’.
at stiff, n.1
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