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Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 115: It come dark with folks singing Christmas carols [...] and he was feeling good from Tom and Jerries.at tom and jerry, n.1
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 115: It come dark with folks singing Christmas carols [...] and he was feeling good from Tom and Jerries. Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 163: We’re going into Chi on the Pennsy and in the diner I see a little bald man eye me and when we’re back in our section this little baldy comes by, smiling.at baldy, n.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 50: If you want to go to bat on this thing it’s swell with me.at go to bat (v.) under bat, v.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 217: You couldn’t expect the First Ward Irish to go to bat for an East Side punk.at go to bat for (v.) under bat, v.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 106: It’s better to fence with a guy like Moe the Mouse and get three hundred berries.at berry, n.1
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 19: Maybe the big cheeses are crooks all right.at big cheese, n.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 13: ‘Look, bub,’ the policeman said, ‘Why aren’t you in school today?’.at bub, n.3
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 69: You come with me, Leo, and you won’t be a bushleaguer.at bush league, adj.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 162: They’d never in the world connect a lushy goof simple enough to lift the chief’s Cad with me.at Cad, n.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 62: It’s rare indeed I ever see a box these days that I’d bother with except in private houses and little stores and these mostly don’t call for anything more than a can opener.at can opener, n.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 240: Then it was lights out and we had to can the chatter.at can, v.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 161: Finally, after about ten days there in the quarantine cell I came out cold turkey and I said, ‘Look, Cliff [...] that Denver caper of yours don’t make sense for you in any way I look at it’.at cold turkey, adv.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 227: I began serving my life sentence in Sing Sing and the very first resolution I made was that I was going to keep my good behaviour, or what good old Danny [...] used to call holding your copper.at blow one’s copper (v.) under copper, n.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 162: I browned my face and hands and went Jim Crow in a day coach to Denver.at Jim Crow, adv.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 118: ‘Well, I reckon I’d better put in some more dan,’ and he slipped two more sections of dynamite into the soup.at dan, n.1
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 213: I was [...] locked up in the East Wing to wait for the day when they were to take me into the dance hall adjoining.at dancehall (n.) under dance, n.1
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 94: I thought we was dead rabbits and no fooling.at dead rabbit (n.) under dead, adj.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 9: ‘Want a shoe shine, Donny?’ And the fat boy said, ‘Sure, Papa. I guess my dogs could stand some dolling up.’.at dogs, n.1
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 165: He was a finagler and we just out-finagled him.at finagler, n.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 235: The whole thing was a flim-flam.at flim-flam, n.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 53: You’re dressed up a little flashy for practical purposes. A plain blue suit is better.at flashy, adj.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 253: As a boy Johnny seemed to prefer fluffy muffs.at fluffy, adj.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 188: You son-of-a-bitch, you talk when you’re asked a question. Get funny and we’ll give you a real softening up.at get funny with (v.) under funny, adj.2
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 3: Experience isn’t worth a gaycat’s poke unless you can interpret it.at gaycat, n.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 160: He had been pinched on a very silly caper in Denver that nobody except a goof or a marihuana dope or possibly a jake-hound would have done. [Ibid.] 162: They’d never in the world connect a lushy goof simple enough to lift the chief’s Cad with me.at goof, n.2
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 168: ‘Great balls of fire,’ he said in a hushed voice.at great balls of fire! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 87: The old son-of-a-bitch left us a stack of new long green.at long green, n.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 161: The law was there a-plenty and smoking and they got the Mac complete and I got one harness bull complete.at harness bull (n.) under harness, n.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 162: Even if something happened while I’m in stir so they got hep, they still wouldn’t whisper.at get hep (v.) under hep, adj.
Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 58: You’re plumb nuts if you get yourself hooked up before you’re twenty-one.at hook up (with), v.
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