1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 56: For the first couple of nites no one gave a tinker’s-damn about Lorry.at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 17: He knew how hard she worked for her piece of bread and butter.at bread and butter, n.1
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 145: Well, ole Moose [...] wasn’t as hot on running that ape-head up on the bid.at apehead (n.) under ape, n.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 65: Mush Tate was argufying with Prunes, Shrimp, Spunk, and all the goulashes. [Ibid.] 75: He was the champeen argufier of the home.at argufy, v.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 211: One guy [...] who was a little more hardboiled that the rest said the whole Y.M.C.A. outfit could kiss his ass.at kiss someone’s arse, v.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 195: The freight was tied up in that union pacific asshole of a place.at asshole, n.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 266: ‘Good mawnin’’ said the warden, / ‘Merry Christmas to yuse alls,’ / And as he passed back up the aisle, / The prisoners answered, ‘Ba-aals!’.at balls!, excl.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 209: He heard a small rap at the door [...] It came again; balls, could that soused Swede have followed him, or rung a police alarm.at balls!, excl.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 51: The teacher was a tall, thin, straight-up-and-down sort of dry beanpole.at beanpole, n.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 271: The scalding water, almost burning out the pimples on his lean back, Max Maxwell let out a bitchin’ oath.at bitching, n.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 250: He spent much of his time sitting against the brass railings going down the front stone steps of the Y., where he could blah with a newsie or watch a well-turned leg.at blah, v.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 105: He made him [...] ask for a pair of specs so that he could blink straight.at blink, v.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 189: That’s what one gets ridin’ the blinds, boeing about. [Ibid.] 206: How long had he been boeing, it appeared ages.at bo, v.1
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 226: Jeremy used to [...] chortle out loud to himself; whenever he remembered how farmer Lawrence got high blood pressure and boo-hooed till it seemed he was going to bust, because Jeremy had given his pony that name.at boohoo, v.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 206: He walked into a combination boozing joint and dance hall.at booze crib (n.) under booze, n.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 75: A pal of his ran in and told him Mush Tate was shootin’ the bull and heavy too.at shoot the bull (v.) under bull, n.6
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 104: That ball player slung his bat all the way from the plate to the pitcher, getting him rite on the charley-horse.at charley horse, n.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 264: Red Rufus, who had dropped out of the klondike three and a half berries in the hole and wasn’t much on listening to David’s chaw.at chaw, n.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 18: He was sometimes a pimp, always a chippie-chaser. He [...] affected the airs of a dude about town.at chippie-chaser (n.) under chippie, n.1
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 272: Lorry felt he was cooked for sure this time, but could see no way out.at cooked, adj.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 144: Skinny, who had cowpunched and played yukon in Cheyenne.at cow-puncher, n.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 211: He hadn’t been in the army for nuthin’; not paid half his government check for the krappy cigarettes them social secs. palmed off on the fellas in the trenches.at crappy, adj.
1929 E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 73: Two days later a d.t. brought back Mush Tate; a bull had caught him on a M.K.T. freight headin’ for Chi.at d.t., n.