1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 177: I never saw so many hot Scotches and Tom and Jerries.at tom and jerry, n.1
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 95: I’m bound to say it’s a baby of a maxim for prophetic truthfulness.at baby, n.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 224: ‘Now,’ I’d say to the proprietor of the ball joint, [...] ‘with regard to the number of chances.’.at ball, n.2
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 32: Figuring on where the engraved papers were going to come from that ’ud enable me to yank one of the bennies out of the eaves.at benny, n.1
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 97: The man [...] had a hold on my arm that felt like that of a badged biddy of the Broadway squad. [Ibid.] 103: The biddy on the corner impaled me with his gray Milesian eye.at biddy, n.2
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 78: You’ll be able to work me for the ride to the big town.at big town, n.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 42: The game had begun to get blinky on the preceding night.at blinky, adj.1
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 56: This is the real dyed-in-the-wool, blown-in-the-bottle —.at blown-in-the-glass, adj.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 129: It is perfectly legitimate for him to back a ringer right off the boards if [...] he needs the money badly.at off the boards (adv.) under boards, n.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 47: My mate was doing a neat little shadow dance [...] back of one of the South Side boozoriums. [Ibid.] I planted 235 of them around the Chicago booze emporiums.at boozorium, n.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 44: We [...] were jogged to a truly rural wetworks further up the Boulevard. Here we had more bubbles.at bubbly, n.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 16: It had been such a long, long time since I’d bucked into smells like those that they sort o’ got me around the neckband.at buck in (v.) under buck, v.4
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 97: I can see you hunting around for raw steak for two bum lamps and a bondsman into the bargain.at bum, adj.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 38: He had in every kick a bundle that’ud trip a white wings.at bundle that would trip a white wings (n.) under bundle, n.1
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 98: He looked like business, all right, and so did his porter, who came on the scene just then with a mallet.at look like business (v.) under business, n.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 50: A two-minute buzz with the manager of the op’ry house.at buzz, n.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 43: Handing me that peculiar grin of his that overswept his whole chart.at chart, n.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 9: He absent-mindedly looked around the table for a chaser, after tossing off his glass of vichy and milk.at chaser, n.1
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 88: The end of the chaw was that the old man promised to meet O’Brien in Buffalo.at chaw, n.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 84: That’s an experience that’ll hold me until I cash in my last stock of whites.at cash in one’s checks (v.) under check, n.1
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 192: There are too many cud-chewers and pants-hitchers [...] gyrating around in this —.at chew the cud, v.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 135: Some feller that’s a good ink slinger an’ thet kin spread good chin music on paper.at chin music, n.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 214: These Chinese narratives [...] that hike along from right to left and hand you an epilogue before you’ve had a chance to rubber at the preface.at Chinese, adj.
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 131: A bunch o’ [...] ward sleuths a-pattering in the back room off a precinct clink.at clink, n.1
1902 C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 164: The horse soldiered on me something scandalous, so that I was generally about fifteen minutes late.at come the old soldier (v.) under come the..., v.