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(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 62: If you did squeal, your life wouldn’t be worth a plugged nickel.at not worth a plugged nickel, phr.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 62: If you did squeal, your life wouldn’t be worth a plugged nickel. (ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 289: Here is what one newspaper man wrote about the A.W.O.L. convicts.at A.W.O.L., adj.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 167: I had been forced to leave my ‘Come-along’ and other tools beside the open pete.at come-along, n.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 112: As I was climbing from the car, I took it on the Arthur K. Duffy.at take it on the Arthur Duffy, v.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 32: ‘We’re getting hotter’n a firecracker on these little stick-ups we’ve pulled,’ I protested.at ...a fire-cracker under hot as..., adj.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 136: Boloney! Now I hated law and order worse than ever before.at baloney!, excl.
Over the Wall 351: I’ll bet the big birds running this bastile will be plenty rough on us two guys from now on.at bastille, n.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 279: Did the main cheese really believe he could get away with that?at big cheese, n.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 85: Hey, you [...] line up with this fellow. I’m taking you all in to the big fellow.at big man (n.) under big, adj.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 239: Let’s make a go of it and blast it out with the two guards.at blast, v.1
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 112: Then the junk – small rocks, hoops and blocks – ticking rhythmically.at block, n.5
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 28: A dick nabbed me with some swag, collared me, took me to the can, booked me, and slammed me in the bridal chamber.at bridal chamber, n.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 213: You’ll go broncho whiffing so much of that damned merry [marijuana].at bronco, adj.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 111: I [...] sent the bright beam from my ‘bug’ from one end of the car to the other.at bug, n.4
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 75: Only through moments of relaxation did we get sloughed when we had to fill our systems with several slugs of bug-juice.at bug juice (n.) under bug, n.4
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 28: He had just been released a few days before from a penitentiary down in Oklahoma, still had the ‘bull horrors’ to a certain extent.at bull horrors, n.1
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 86: In the bullpen, I really learned what the word ‘stagnation’ meant.at bullpen, n.
(ref. to 1918) Over the Wall 21: I learned quickly that a dollar bill was a fish-skin [...] fifty a half-a-C.at half-a-C (n.) under C, n.2
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 36: Whitey [...] had boasted incessantly that the caper would net us at least about four grand.at caper, n.2
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 245: He was known as a ‘cat’ – a man who would go to the bulls and betray his associates.at cat, n.1
(ref. to 1918) Over the Wall 21: I learned quickly that [...] a two-dollar note was a Hard-Luck-Charlie.at charlie, n.2
(ref. to 1918) Over the Wall 21: The hysien users; chloroform sniffers, who belonged to the riff-raff element of the dope chippeys.at chippie, n.5
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 28: At the circus, they appointed me a lousy ambulance chaser who was a scrammer.at circus, n.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 147: He could gold-brick around with [...] a Stetson felt, and regulation ‘civies’.at civvies, n.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 143: The clowns in this burg believe in that ‘Cherchez la femme’ stuff.at clown, n.
(ref. to 1918) Over the Wall 21: Hopheads or cokes – the cocaine addicts on the snow.at coke, n.1
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 160: A safe in underworld parlance is called a box, crate, crib, can and other names.at crib, n.1
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 58: Finally the man’s whing-dings became so pronounced that I went down to the cell-house guard and demanded a move.at wing-ding, n.
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 57: It’s stuff like this that makes a monkey stir-simple. We all get dingier’na pet coon inside these dumps.at dingy, adj.2
(ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 132: Owing to the extreme cold the men were compelled to [...] huddle around one of the pot-bellied stoves inside the ‘Doghouse’. [Ibid.] 275: ‘The Dog-House’ [...] was a very long, low, ugly building, which was originally constructed as a place for recreation.at doghouse, n.
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