Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Prohibition Agent No. 1 choose

Quotation Text

[US] I. Einstein Prohibition Agent No. 1 240: There was a kind of bargain stuff called ‘block-fall’ which certainly did live up to its name – you took a drink of it, walked a block, and fell. And from the samples I collected I’d say it was guaranteed.
at block and fall, n.
[US] I. Einstein Prohibition Agent No. 1 249: With this information and accompanied by some ‘friends,’ including members of the nose-powdering sex, I butter-and-egged my way through the Tango Belt (as it was called) and played the high-flying sucker.
at butter-and-egg, v.
[US] I. Einstein Prohibition Agent No. 1 159: That job, with no orchestra or floor show to help me in my knock-down-and-drag-out battle with sleep, was some assignment for a ‘gay sport’ in a dress suit to hand himself.
at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adj.
[US] I. Einstein Prohibition Agent No. 1 202: [chapter title] Mopping The Wetness Of Motor City.
at Motor City, n.
[US] I. Einstein Prohibition Agent No. 1 73: Honest Izzy, America’s premier hooch-hound.
at hooch hound (n.) under hooch, n.1
[US] E. Behr Prohibition 179: This testy, foul-mouthed tub-thumper with a child’s attention span and only moderate intelligence.
at tub-thumper, n.
no more results