1949 ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 124: I’m really being tailed now and they’re after something or they’d have bagged me already.at bag, v.
1949 ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 3: That’s the way I dig it. I do it nice. Play it cool. I don’t blow my top like other cats and go out and rob to get stuff.at blow one’s top, v.
1949 ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 76: Too many brass buttons been around.at brass buttons (n.) under brass, adj.1
1949 ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 124: Soon as I got the angle on that I breezed [...] I legged it for home fast.at breeze, v.1
1949 ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 45: You just want to be a hep cat with pretty clothes you don’t earn.at hep-cat, n.
1949 ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 68: I pulled the score by myself. I was gone about an hour and when I came back I got fistfuls of alligator skins. I got more money than John D and Henry Ford.at frogskin, n.1
1949 ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 89: Right after the party we was supposed to jump you, get it on.at get it on, v.
1949 ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 105: They were all good records: Frankie Lane, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstein, all gone good singers. They were goners.at gone, adv.
1949 ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 42: The driver was greedy-anxious so we flashed a lot of green stuff in his face.at green stuff (n.) under green, adj.1
1949 ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke viii: Zip – a gun made from a toy ‘Airplane Gun’ that shoots a .22 bullet.at zip (gun), n.
1949 ‘Hal Ellson’ Duke 135: I slapped the fight out of her and then slapped hell out of her.at hell, the, phr.