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(con. 1920s) Addicts Who Survived 294: He was asked how he accounted for his ill-luck, and he laughingly replied, ‘I guess the blokeys use ponies (loaded dice) on me’.at pony (and trap), n.
(con. 1920s) Addicts Who Survived 294: He was asked how he accounted for his ill-luck, and he laughingly replied, ‘I guess the blokeys use ponies (loaded dice) on me’. (con. 1950s) Addicts Who Survived 163: My habit wasn’t bad when we first started out. But it wasn’t very long before I was up to four or five bags a day.at bag, n.1
(con. 1939) Addicts Who Survived 116: When I first started shooting heroin they were cutting it with bonita, and coke with epsom salts.at bonita, n.
(con. 1940s) Addicts Who Survived 134: The morphine sulfate didn’t give me the boot I wanted.at boot, n.4
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 241: No one dared to speak while the record was playing. I remember that, if someone spoke, the word was, ‘He’s a bring-down’.at bringdown, n.
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 188: You had to be a button guy, you had to kill three, four people and be somebody that they look up to.at button man (n.) under button, n.4
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 192: I’ll sell them in the quarters, eights, and sixteenths, and in the small caps, and the fifty-cent packages.at cap, n.4
(con. 1920s) Addicts Who Survived 82: I was a chef: I used to know how to make the pills. I’d get twenty-five dollars every time I cheffed for him.at chef, n.
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 329: I could chef and it made you, like, the king of the walk. You were the main guy. Especially me: I had money, I had stuff.at chef, v.
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 187: The Italians were selling shit, chemical, acid.at chemical, n.
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 298: I figure I’ll get clean and then come back.at clean, adj.
(con. 1920s) Addicts Who Survived 187: Then the wops started to get in it, and they started to knock off the Jews, they started to clip them. This was in ’26, ’28, around then.at clip, v.1
(con. 1920s) Addicts Who Survived 68: See it was no disgrace to be a cokie – they used to call them ‘cokies’.at cokie, n.
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 95: That was back in the thirties; ’38. ’39. She really went down the hill with heroin [...] At that time it was a big favor to get her junk. I got her a connection.at connection, n.
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 100: Gurrah died in the crazy house.at crazy house (n.) under crazy, n.
Addicts Who Survived 63: Some individuals manage to use it occasionally [...] Narcotic users themselves have long recognized this pattern, and have a host of names for it: ‘weekend habit,’ ‘chicken-shit habit,’ ‘ice-cream habit,’ ‘Saturday-night habit,’ ‘chippy habit’.at ice-cream habit (n.) under ice-cream, n.
(con. 1920s) Addicts Who Survived 184: All right, what does she want? Cubes or ...at cube, n.1
(con. 1950s) Addicts Who Survived 66: He’ll ask you, ‘Man, how many cuts can I put on it?’ You tell him, ‘Man, you can put four.’ That means he’ll put one good spoon with four spoons of cut. Then he’s going to sell it to the ordinary guy.at cut, n.1
(con. 1940s) Addicts Who Survived 148: He gave me a handful of dollies when he came back, right after the war, ’45.at dollies, n.1
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 53: If somebody came up and said, ‘Look, man, I got some pot, man. Y’all want to get down?’ we’d say, ‘Yeah, man’.at get down, v.4
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 167: I got married in 1939. I used to go to a lay-down joint – that’s where I met my first husband.at lay-down joint (n.) under lay down, v.
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 87: You make arrangements. Like, I’d say, ‘I’m going to lay down for two days, Tuesday till Thursday’.at lay down, v.
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 168: You know what I mean by ‘knockdown money’? Tips men would give you – you wouldn’t turn them in.at knock-down money (n.) under knock-down, n.
(con. 1950s) Addicts Who Survived 65: He fixed me up a little bit in a dropper.at dropper, n.4
(con. late 1940s) Addicts Who Survived 134: I used to pay twenty dollars an eighth for it.at eighth, n.
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 240: In those days it was called ‘gage,’ ‘weed,’ or ‘tea’.at gage, n.2
(con. 1938) Addicts Who Survived 133: This heroin pad was in a hotel room [...] he had about eight or ten sets of works on the table. It was more or less like a shooting gallery of today.at shooting gallery, n.
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 97: The outfit was bulky. You had to have the pipe – the stick – the opium, the gee rag, and the top part of the bowl, and the things to clean it after you were through smoking.at gee, n.7
(con. 1940s) Addicts Who Survived 70: I was with this broad, she was a junkie. We were in up in her room, and she got off.at get off, v.3
(con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 172: I started using heroin around 1933. For fourteen dollars I got what they called ‘Green Dragon.’ It came in a box, all tissued up.at green dragon (n.) under green, adj.1
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