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The Run For Home choose

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[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 310: None of these guys are gonna ante up dough.
at ante (up), v.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 127: Loosen up! You look like you’ve got an oar up your ass!
at have a stick up one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 106: He’d probably give it to you all ass-backwards!
at ass-backwards under ass, n.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 104: What’s the matter, kid? Don’t you want to be asshole buddies?
at asshole buddy (n.) under asshole, n.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 221: She had always spent several weeks at her family’s ‘bache’ on Rangitoto Island.
at bach, n.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 115: Warndahl snorted in the darkness. ‘Cigarettes my achin’ ass!’.
at my aching back! (excl.) under back, n.1
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 138: I see this miserable shit, balls-ass naked, hanging by his hands from an overhead beam.
at balls naked, adj.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 82: Nine bells—and all’s well.
at bell, n.1
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 228: I’ll be dad-burned if I can call you ‘Lewis’ on paper.
at dad-burned, adj.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 169: Nuthin’ to do and nuthin’ to drink on Sunday in this Christ-bitten place!
at Christ-bitten (adj.) under Christ, n.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 145: I also caught a lousy fink who plays with a cold deck!
at cold deck, n.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 89: He’s a grumpy old coot.
at old coot (n.) under coot, n.1
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 317: If you want to buy that corn-husker a toy [...] get it yourself!
at corn-husker (n.) under corn, n.1
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 275: Ya hafta know how to take that goddamn doo-hickey apart and clean it.
at dohickey, n.1
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 7: There’s something about those Russians. They got the ephus on everybody. I don’t know what it is. They cut and bleed and die just like everyone else, but they’ve got everybody believing they’re tough as shark hide.
at ephus, n.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 344: It’s hard to keep from being hurt when your eldest boy takes French leave.
at French leave, n.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 170: He knew that a ‘full house’ meant coincidental cases of gonorrhea and syphilis.
at full hand, n.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 275: If that steward don’t send one of them goo-goo’s back here with a bag of that powdered cow dung they use for coffee, I’m gonna go up and get it myself!
at goo-goo, n.1
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 94: Let’s go get a cup of ‘jamoke’.
at jamoke, n.1
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 353: These dames [...] do all their fun-lovin’ fornication with those wild-looking, double-jointed Kanakas!
at Kanaka, n.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 199: Get a load of those teeth. They look too good to be home-grown!
at get a load of (v.) under load, n.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 124: It’s a Mexican stand-off! No breeze south-bound — and too much north-bound!
at Mexican standoff (n.) under Mexican, adj.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 94: ‘You guys get yer nuts rattled?’ He wet his ugly lip in eager anticipation.
at get one’s nuts rattled (v.) under nuts, n.2
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 109: It’s better to let them think you’ve got five balls than to let ’em think you’re a ‘queer-o’.
at -o, sfx
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 65: Maybe you done something wrong and they’re gonna give you piss and punk for thirty days!
at piss and punk (n.) under piss, n.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 170: He was not getting slicked up to go ‘on the prowl’.
at slick (oneself) up (v.) under slick, v.
[US] L.F. Cooley Run For Home (1959) 6: I’m a radio operator, therefore I’m called ‘Sparks’.
at sparks, n.2
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